Fine Paintings and Sculpture

508
Paul Henry (Irish, 1876-1958)

A Bog Near Dingle, Co., Kerry, c. 1928-
1930
Signed “PAUL HENRY” l.r., identified on a label
from Combridge’s Fine Art Galleries, Dublin,
Ireland, affixed to the reverse, and with a label
from Combridge Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, affixed
to the frame.
Oil on panel, 10 x 12 1/2 in. (25.4 x 31.8 cm),
framed (under glass).
Condition: Craquelure, very minor surface
grime.

Provenance: Collection of Henry L. Shattuck,
c. 1938; by descent in the family of the current
owner; a North Shore, Massachusetts, estate.

Exhibitions: Paul Henry: Paintings of Kerry
and Wicklow, Combridge Gallery, Dublin,
November 12, 1937, no. 3.

N.B. The present work is dated c. 1928-30

on stylistic grounds, and numbered 1269

in S.B. Kennedy’s ongoing cataloging of

Paul Henry’s oeuvre. We wish to thank Dr.

S.B. Kennedy for his kind assistance with

cataloging the lot.

The present work is one of several Paul Henry

paintings collected by Henry Lee Shattuck

(1879-1971), which includes The Bog at

Evening, 1922-3, and Mountain Village, 1926-

9, currently in the permanent collection of the

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Shattuck was a

notable business and non-profit leader and

philanthropist active in Boston during the early

to mid-20th century. He was a New Englander

of part Irish descent, and supported Irish

cultural exchange through his activities

with the Charitable Irish Society of Boston.^1

He was also a treasurer and senior fellow of

the board of Harvard University from 1929

to 1952, a member of the Massachusetts

House of Representatives from 1920 to 1930,

and from 1943 to 1948, and a member of

the Boston City Council from 1933 to 1938.^2

Today, he is perhaps best remembered as

both the namesake of a public service award

that honors employees of the City of Boston,

and for his 300-acre woodland bequest in

Medfield to the Trustees of Reservations.

1. “Henry Lee Shattuck,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical
   Society, Third Series, Vol. 83 (1971), p. 170.


2. Ibid., 168.
   $25,000-35,000

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