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Paul Henry RHA (1876 - 1958) West of Ireland Scene (1934-8) Oil on canvas, 35 x 40cm (13¾ x 15¾'') Signed 'PAUL HENRY' b.l. Provenance: Louis Kinlen, Dublin, acquired in the 1930s; thence by descent Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2007, catalogue number 897, p. 277, reproduced The setting is almost certainly County Kerry, in which case the painting is one of Henry's pictures of the Iveragh Peninsula (for a discussion of these paintings see S. B. Kennedy, 'Paul Henry's Iveragh Paintings', in John Crowley and John Sheehan (eds.), The Iveragh Peninsula, Cork University Press, 2009, pp. 441-4). Henry first went to County Kerry in late 1932 or early 1933, staying at Glenbeigh. The visit marked a watershed in his affairs after the domestic upsets of the previous decade. Thus, when he again visited Glenbeigh in September 1933 his mood was lighter and so was his palette both in terms of tone and colour. These things can be seen clearly in West of Ireland Scene, where the sky, distant mountain and hills in the middle distance are especially settled, the warm glow generated by the setting sun determining the mood of the whole composition. The topography may represent the same landscape as in Henry's Western Bogland (Kennedy, 2007, catalogue number 1016), but of this one cannot be certain. Dated 1934-8 on stylistic grounds