An Old Woman

Details

Paul Henry, R.H.A. (1876-1958)
An Old Woman
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower left)
oil on board
10 x 7 in. (25.5 x 18 cm.)
Painted in 1910-11.

Provenance

Robert Mitchell Henry (the artist's brother), and by descent to Kathleen Henry (the artist's sister-in-law), 1957.

Literature

S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry Paintings Drawings Illustrations, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 149, no. 283, illustrated.

Exhibited

Belfast, Pollock's Gallery, Paintings of Irish Life: Mr and Mrs Paul Henry, March 1911, no. 6.
Dublin, Leinster Hall, Paintings by Mrs Frances Baker, Grace Henry, Paul Henry, Casimir Dunin-Markiewicz and George Russell (AE), October 1911, as 'Old age pensioner'.

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Lot Essay

A good example of Paul Henry's early Achill period and (although smaller in size) in effect a companion piece to An old Man from Connacht [see lot 33] of the same period. The characterization, handling of paint with precise strokes of a small brush which deftly describe the forms, the almost monochromatic range of colours and the cottage door also link it to An old Man from Connacht composition. After he first went to Achill Island Henry made a number of observational studies, all about this size, of the life he found there, such as My Friend Michael Mangan, The Blacksmith, and My Host and Hostess (all 1910-13, Ulster Museum, Belfast). It is in the context of those works that An Old Woman should be seen.

B.K.

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