Paul Henry valuation
Painted the west of Ireland, Achill and Connemara, in a spare style that shaped how Ireland saw itself.
Paul Henry was born in Belfast in 1876, the son of a Baptist minister, and studied at the Belfast School of Art before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and with Whistler at the Académie Carmen.
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Bio
Paul Henry was born in Belfast in 1876, the son of a Baptist minister, and studied at the Belfast School of Art before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and with Whistler at the Académie Carmen. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and in 1910 went to Achill Island, where he lived until 1919, learning to paint the light, bog, mountains, cottages and clouds of the west of Ireland in a simplified Post-Impressionist style. In 1919 he moved to Dublin, and in 1920 he was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters. His railway posters, notably Connemara Landscape, carried his image of the west far beyond the galleries. He was colour-blind to red and green, lost his sight in 1945, and died at Bray in 1958.
Henry's landscapes of Achill and Connemara come up regularly, and because his compositions repeat, a work is checked against S. B. Kennedy's catalogue raisonné and its provenance. Charcoal drawings and early works from his years in Paris and London appear too.
Paris, Achill and the Society of Dublin Painters
He separated from Grace Henry in 1929, and his second wife was the painter Mabel Young.
Trinity College Dublin held a commemorative exhibition in 1973, and the National Gallery of Ireland a major exhibition in 2004.
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