Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958) The Bog Road Oil on board, 34 x 39cm (13.5 x 15.25'') Signed Exhibited: Possibly exhibited, ''In Connemara'', Paintings by Paul Henry R.H.A., Fine Art Society, London, from 11 April 1934, catalogue no. 23 Provenance: Wilfred Toone, who acquired it from the artist in 1938; thence by family descent Wilfrid Toone and his wife were the founders of the well known Dublin school, Castle Park in Dalkey, in 1904, and the picture comes to us from the estate of his grandson. The painting was recently featured on The Antiques Roadshow, BBC Television, when they visited Bath. Unfortunately the then owner, Mr. Toone's grandson died prior to the screening of the programme. This may be The Wilds of Connemara picture that Henry exhibited in his show of recent paintings at the Fine Art Society in 1934 (see S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, 2007, number 836), but of this one cannot be certain. At any rate, judged stylistically it must date from around 1934-8. The fluid handling of the paint and the generally light tone of the palette suggest that the setting is County Kerry, where Henry holidayed a number of times in the mid 1930s. By then, after a bleak time domestically and financially his fortunes had improved and he found the area 'lovely' but 'very lonely & wild.' The vast emptiness, the sense of timelessness and absence of a human presence recorded in The Bog Road echo these sentiments. The composition is one of four pictures of this title (see Kennedy, 2007, numbers, 496, 907, 909), the latter two dating from the same years. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, October 2010 Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958) The Bog Road Oil on board, 34 x 39cm (13.5 x 15.25'') Signed Exhibited: Possibly exhibited, ''In Connemara'', Paintings by Paul Henry R.H.A., Fine Art Society, London, from 11 April 1934, catalogue no. 23 Provenance: Wilfred Toone, who acquired it from the artist in 1938; thence by family descent Wilfrid Toone and his wife were the founders of the well known Dublin school, Castle Park in Dalkey, in 1904, and the picture comes to us from the estate of his grandson. The painting was recently featured on The Antiques Roadshow, BBC Television, when they visited Bath. Unfortunately the then owner, Mr. Toone's grandson died prior to the screening of the programme. This may be The Wilds of Connemara picture that Henry exhibited in his show of recent paintings at the Fine Art Society in 1934 (see S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, 2007, number 836), but of this one cannot be certain. At any rate, judged stylistically it must date from around 1934-8. The fluid handling of the paint and the generally light tone of the palette suggest that the setting is County Kerry, where Henry holidayed a number of times in the mid 1930s. By then, after a bleak time domestically and financially his fortunes had improved and he found the area 'lovely' but 'very lonely & wild.' The vast emptiness, the sense of timelessness and absence of a human presence recorded in The Bog Road echo these sentiments. The composition is one of four pictures of this title (see Kennedy, 2007, numbers, 496, 907, 909), the latter two dating from the same years. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, October 2010
Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958) The Bog Road Oil on board, 34 x 39cm (13.5 x 15.25'') Signed Exhibited: Possibly exhibited, ''In Connemara'', Paintings by Paul Henry R.H.A., Fine Art Society, London, from 11 April 1934, catalogue no. 23 Provenance: Wilfred Toone, who acquired it from the artist in 1938; thence by family descent Wilfrid Toone and his wife were the founders of the well known Dublin school, Castle Park in Dalkey, in 1904, and the picture comes to us from the estate of his grandson. The painting was recently featured on The Antiques Roadshow, BBC Television, when they visited Bath. Unfortunately the then owner, Mr. Toone's grandson died prior to the screening of the programme. This may be The Wilds of Connemara picture that Henry exhibited in his show of recent paintings at the Fine Art Society in 1934 (see S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, 2007, number 836), but of this one cannot be certain. At any rate, judged stylistically it must date from around 1934-8. The fluid handling of the paint and the generally light tone of the palette suggest that the setting is County Kerry, where Henry holidayed a number of times in the mid 1930s. By then, after a bleak time domestically and financially his fortunes had improved and he found the area 'lovely' but 'very lonely & wild.' The vast emptiness, the sense of timelessness and absence of a human presence recorded in The Bog Road echo these sentiments. The composition is one of four pictures of this title (see Kennedy, 2007, numbers, 496, 907, 909), the latter two dating from the same years. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, October 2010 Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958) The Bog Road Oil on board, 34 x 39cm (13.5 x 15.25'') Signed Exhibited: Possibly exhibited, ''In Connemara'', Paintings by Paul Henry R.H.A., Fine Art Society, London, from 11 April 1934, catalogue no. 23 Provenance: Wilfred Toone, who acquired it from the artist in 1938; thence by family descent Wilfrid Toone and his wife were the founders of the well known Dublin school, Castle Park in Dalkey, in 1904, and the picture comes to us from the estate of his grandson. The painting was recently featured on The Antiques Roadshow, BBC Television, when they visited Bath. Unfortunately the then owner, Mr. Toone's grandson died prior to the screening of the programme. This may be The Wilds of Connemara picture that Henry exhibited in his show of recent paintings at the Fine Art Society in 1934 (see S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, 2007, number 836), but of this one cannot be certain. At any rate, judged stylistically it must date from around 1934-8. The fluid handling of the paint and the generally light tone of the palette suggest that the setting is County Kerry, where Henry holidayed a number of times in the mid 1930s. By then, after a bleak time domestically and financially his fortunes had improved and he found the area 'lovely' but 'very lonely & wild.' The vast emptiness, the sense of timelessness and absence of a human presence recorded in The Bog Road echo these sentiments. The composition is one of four pictures of this title (see Kennedy, 2007, numbers, 496, 907, 909), the latter two dating from the same years. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, October 2010
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