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Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958) A Kerry Lake, Dingle Peninsula Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 40.5cm (14 x 16") Signed; inscribed with title verso Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist, thought to have been a gift, by Dr Robert Donnelly who was the Doctor on Achill and thence by family descent - never before been on the market. Paul liked the Dingle Peninsula and was always happy there. 'It is lovely. Wherever one turns there is material for dozens of pictures', he wrote to James Healy, his dealer in America. He explored the whole area (Mabel, his second wife, had a motor car) which reminded him of Cape Cod, 'very lonely & wild but not very paintable...nicer at a distance', he ventured to Healy. But he made numerous sketches which later, in the studio, were turned into paintings. This painting may have been made from one of those sketches. The painting has never been offered for sale before. 'A Kerry Lake, Dingle Peninsula' is numbered 1333 in S.B. Kennedy's on-going Catalogue Raisonné of Paul Henry's work.