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Title: A Connemara Village

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Signed: lower right: PAUL HENRY

Credit Line: Purchased, 2004

Description This comparatively large painting by Henry records with great accuracy the view eastwards from the quay on the Clifden road just over a kilometre west of Letterfrack, County Galway. A carefully annotated pencil study of the scene, in a sketchbook in the Gallery's collection, shows the care and discipline Henry employed when arranging and colouring such seemingly simple compositions.
The cluster of diminutive, white-washed cottages, picked out by sunlight against a backdrop of mountains and an impressive sky, is a motif that recurs in Henry's landscape painting from the early 1920s onwards. These cottages emphasise the grandeur of the local scenery while simultaneously alluding to the isolation of rural communities and their reliance on the land. Individual characters and human activity are, however, conspicuous by their absence from Henry's mature work. These landscapes are animated by the interplay of physical elements and profiles, the play of light upon them, and the bold patterns and shapes created in large, cloudy skies. The colour range, more evocative than naturalistic, and the schematic composition are both qualities with which Henry is closely associated. Though painted in the artist's Dublin studio, this picture is the product of experience and assiduous observation in the west of Ireland, and typifies those views by Henry that have been fondly celebrated as quintessentially Irish.

March 2016

Provenance Purchased from the Artist by Private Collector; purchased, Christie's, London, Irish Sale, 14th May 2004, lot 148

Exhibition History 'In Connemara', Paintings by Paul Henry RHA, Fine Art Society, London, 1934

Paul Henry 1876-1958, Trinity College, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1973

Paul Henry, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2003

Taking Stock: Acquisitions 2000-2010, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 13 March 2010 - 25 July 2010

Label Text This comparatively large painting records, with great accuracy, the view eastwards from the quay on the Clifden road just over a kilometre west of Letterfrack, Co. Galway. The cluster of diminutive cottages, picked out by sunlight against a backdrop of mountains and sky, is a motif that recurs in Henry's landscape painting from the early 1920s onwards. Human activity is conspicuous by its absence. The landscape is animated instead by the interplay of physical elements and profiles, the play of light upon them, and the bold patterns and shapes created by voluminous clouds.

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Title: A Connemara Village Medium: Oil on wood panel Signed: lower right: PAUL HENRY Credit Line: Purchased, 2004 Description This comparatively large painting by Henry records with great accuracy the view eastwards from the quay on the Clifden road just over a kilometre west of Letterfrack, County Galway.

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Graham Norton (b.1963, Dublin), Broadcaster, Comedian, Actor and Writer – Objects – National Gallery of Ireland

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Brought up in Bandon, Co. Cork, Graham Norton (born Graham Walker) moved to London in his early twenties, where he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. Hav...

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The Elf-hill by Harry Clarke (1889-1931)

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A magical illustration by the Dublin-born artist

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), A Ship against the Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound, c.1814. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Credit

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Bequeathed, Henry Vaughan, 1900

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In 1811, the engraver and publisher William Cooke approached Turner with a proposal to publish a print series entitled Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England. This watercolour, in which the waves are so accurately depicted, their frothy white crests being blown away by the strong wind, appeared in part six of the series published in 1815. The rigging of the ship labouring in the heavy swell, the clouds highlighted by a bright shaft of sunlight, even the gannets with their characteristic black wing tips are recorded in great detail. The ship, probably a Royal Naval vessel, is dwarfed by the dreaded Mewstone. This dramatic natural feature, which lies at the eastern end of Plymouth Sound off Wembury Bay, notoriously claimed many lives over the centuries. During the summer of 1813 Turner spent time travelling along the coast, filling sketchbooks with his observations.

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A Ship against the Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), A Ship against the Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound, c.1814. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Credit Year Size Medium Provenance Bequeathed, Henry Vaughan, 1900 Number In 1811, the engraver and publisher William Cooke approached Turner with a proposal to publish a print series entitled Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England.

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Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat by Claude Monet (1840-1926)

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Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat by Claude Monet

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Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), The Liffey Swim, 1923. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Credit

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Presented, Trustees of the Haverty Trust, 1931

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In this painting, Yeats captures the atmosphere and thrill of an event that has been part of Dublin's annual sporting calendar since 1920. His depiction of the occasion also represents a return to the sporting themes that had inspired much of his early work. He invites his audience to engage with the event by placing them among the spectators, who lean forward to catch a glimpse of the swimmers as they surge towards the finish line. The painting marked Yeats's growing interest in Expressionism and his adoption of fluid brushwork and a charged palette.

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The Liffey Swim by Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957)

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Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), The Liffey Swim, 1923. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Credit Year Size Medium Provenance Presented, Trustees of the Haverty Trust, 1931 Number In this painting, Yeats captures the atmosphere and thrill of an event that has been part of Dublin's annual sporting calendar since 1920.

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