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Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958) Cottages in a Landscape (1930-1940) Oil on panel, 34.5 x 39.5cm (13½ x 15½'') Signed There is quite a lot of impasto in the clouds, the mountains and the water - to show the direction of light - and he uses a much darker blue in his signature. The cottages snuggle by the edge of the water along with their turf stacks, where there is also considerable impasto. S B Kennedy, April 2019 Numbered 1356 in S.B.Kennedys ongoing recording of the artists oeuvre This painting represents Paul Henry at the height of his powers. After the decade of the 1920s, when his personal life was troubled, by the early 1930s when he was free of those troubles his palette brightened, his colours became crisper and the overall nature of his paintings grew lighter. All these things can be seen inCottages in a Landscape. The composition is divided in three with the upper part, as is typical of Henry, made up of billowing cumulus clouds and a pale blue sky above a middle section composed of gently undulating Connemara mountains, the tonal variations providing a sense of the contours and characteristics of the landscape through the use of translucent glazes. The cottages and turf stacks are nestled just beyond the shore, which is edged with reeds. The briskly painted lake, which occupies the foreground, reflects the sky and its movement conveys a typically breezy day as the top of the water is whipped along with the wind. Throughout, the brushwork retains the clarity that Henry learned in Paris with Whistler at the fin de siècle, the clouds being crisply but clearly delineated, the cottages themselves set down apparently with a minimum of effort, while the brushwork in the foreground is perfectly descriptive of the nature of the terrain. We are indebted to Dr S.B. Kennedy, whose writings form the basis of this catalogue entry. Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958) Cottages in a Landscape (1930-1940) Oil on panel, 34.5 x 39.5cm (13½ x 15½'') Signed There is quite a lot of impasto in the clouds, the mountains and the water - to show the direction of light - and he uses a much darker blue in his signature. The cottages snuggle by the edge of the water along with their turf stacks, where there is also considerable impasto. S B Kennedy, April 2019 Numbered 1356 in S.B.Kennedys ongoing recording of the artists oeuvre This painting represents Paul Henry at the height of his powers. After the decade of the 1920s, when his personal life was troubled, by the early 1930s when he was free of those troubles his palette brightened, his colours became crisper and the overall nature of his paintings grew lighter. All these things can be seen inCottages in a Landscape. The composition is divided in three with the upper part, as is typical of Henry, made up of billowing cumulus clouds and a pale blue sky above a middle section composed of gently undulating Connemara mountains, the tonal variations providing a sense of the contours and characteristics of the landscape through the use of translucent glazes. The cottages and turf stacks are nestled just beyond the shore, which is edged with reeds. The briskly painted lake, which occupies the foreground, reflects the sky and its movement conveys a typically breezy day as the top of the water is whipped along with the wind. Throughout, the brushwork retains the clarity that Henry learned in Paris with Whistler at the fin de siècle, the clouds being crisply but clearly delineated, the cottages themselves set down apparently with a minimum of effort, while the brushwork in the foreground is perfectly descriptive of the nature of the terrain. We are indebted to Dr S.B. Kennedy, whose writings form the basis of this catalogue entry.