An Irish Portrait

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
B.T. Batsford, London.

BINDING
Green cloth boards with gold lettering to spine.

BOOK CONDITION
Very good condition. Two newspaper clippings of art auctioneers' adverts have been pasted on to inside cover and frontispiece. (see photo).

DUST JACKET
Good condition, Slight shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. a couple of small marks and dents. Price clipped.

EDITION
1988 edition. First published 1951.

DESCRIPTION
The autobiography of the Irish landscape painter Paul Henry RHA. With a foreword by Sean O'Faolain. Including eight colour plates grouped together, and four charcoal illustrations of Irish characters.

SYNOPSIS
One of the best known of Irish Landscape painters, especially for his works depicting the wild terrain of the west of the country in a post-impressionist style. The author describes the huge influence his years in the West had on his work. He also writes of his early life in London and Paris at the end of the 1900's, and the often famous friends he met there.