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Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958) Cumulus Clouds, Dugort Oil on board, 12.5 x 15.5cm (5 x 6¼'') Provenance: Mrs R. C. Booth; private collection; Sale, Sothebys, Chester, November 1989. Exhibited: "Paintings Of Irish Life: Mr & Mrs Paul Henry" Pollocks Gallery Belfast, March 1911 Cat. No. 1; "Paintings Frances Baker, Grace Henry, Paul Henry Casimir Dunn Markiewicz and George Russell" Leinster Hall, Dublin Oct 1911, Cat. No. 20. under title "Clouds" "Paul Henry: Paintings and Charcoals" Waddington Gallery Feb/March 1952 Cat. No. 23, Lent by Mrs Booth; "Paul Henry Retrospective Exhibition" Ritchie Hendriks Gallery Dublin, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast, May - July 1957, Cat. No. 49 under title "Cumulus Clouds" Lent by Mrs RC Booth, one of two works lent by her. Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, p. 155, catalogue number 301. This picture typifies Paul Henrys style when he first went to Achill Island in Co. Mayo in 1910. It is therefore one of his very first Achill pictures. Typically for the time, he has used heavy impasto throughout and one can well see the cumulus clouds which so often feature in his work. Even the immediate foreground has been briskly painted and there is little or no detailing in the scene. Dugort is situated north-east of the village of Keel. It was to Dugort that Henry went on his arrival in Achill, but even then he found that the place was swarmed with tourists, and the next morning he took a jaunting car to Keel, which delighted him. As I wandered round and through the village, and out on the road that led through Pullough, and looked down on Dooagh and to the noble cliffs of Achill Head, I felt that here I must stay somehow or another. I would not go farther, he wrote. (Paul Henry An Irish Portrait, Batsford, London, 1951, p. 3). The mountain at the right side of the painting is unnamed, but rises to a height of two hundred and fourteen metres. Slievemore, which dominates the landscape of Achill, is immediately to the left. There are two Sothebys labels on the reverse and a label of the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, as the framer. Dr S.B. Kennedy Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958) Cumulus Clouds, Dugort Oil on board, 12.5 x 15.5cm (5 x 6¼'') Provenance: Mrs R. C. Booth; private collection; Sale, Sothebys, Chester, November 1989. Exhibited: "Paintings Of Irish Life: Mr & Mrs Paul Henry" Pollocks Gallery Belfast, March 1911 Cat. No. 1; "Paintings Frances Baker, Grace Henry, Paul Henry Casimir Dunn Markiewicz and George Russell" Leinster Hall, Dublin Oct 1911, Cat. No. 20. under title "Clouds" "Paul Henry: Paintings and Charcoals" Waddington Gallery Feb/March 1952 Cat. No. 23, Lent by Mrs Booth; "Paul Henry Retrospective Exhibition" Ritchie Hendriks Gallery Dublin, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast, May - July 1957, Cat. No. 49 under title "Cumulus Clouds" Lent by Mrs RC Booth, one of two works lent by her. Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, p. 155, catalogue number 301. This picture typifies Paul Henrys style when he first went to Achill Island in Co. Mayo in 1910. It is therefore one of his very first Achill pictures. Typically for the time, he has used heavy impasto throughout and one can well see the cumulus clouds which so often feature in his work. Even the immediate foreground has been briskly painted and there is little or no detailing in the scene. Dugort is situated north-east of the village of Keel. It was to Dugort that Henry went on his arrival in Achill, but even then he found that the place was swarmed with tourists, and the next morning he took a jaunting car to Keel, which delighted him. As I wandered round and through the village, and out on the road that led through Pullough, and looked down on Dooagh and to the noble cliffs of Achill Head, I felt that here I must stay somehow o