Patrick Hennessy
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork but was sent as a child to Scotland to be raised there by relatives. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome. He returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the Second World War, moving alternately between Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at the RHA, having already exhibited a still-life and a self-portrait at the Royal Scottish Academy two years earlier. Over the next thirty years he showed almost one hundred works at the RHA, ranging between interiors and still-lives, portraits, and landscapes. In all of his compositions he employed a distinctive realist style. In his later years he travelled frequently in Europe and North Africa, often spending his winters in Morocco. A self-portrait hangs in the NGI, whilst the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork has five works by him and another four paintings of his can be seen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. www.whytes.ie
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'THE LEGEND AND THE SEA, c.1956'
- Price Realised: 32,000
- Sale: 29 September 2008
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 105 by 204cm., 41.5 by 80.5in.
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'CONNEMARA PONIES'
- Price Realised: 29,000
- Sale: 29 November 2005
- oil on canvas
- 102 by 127cm., 40 by 50in.
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'CAVALCADE c.1974'
- Price Realised: 20,000
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- oil on canvas
- 24½ x 34Όin. (62.23 x 87cm)
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'FAREWELL TO IRELAND'
- Price Realised: 20,000
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on canvas
- 127 by 102cm., 50 by 40in.
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'THE BROKEN JUG, 1965'
- Price Realised: 19,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 57 by 83cm., 22.5 by 32.5in.
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'EBBTIDE'
- Price Realised: 14,000
- Sale: 20 September 2005
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 64cm., 16 by 25in.
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'LAKE AND ROSES, 1973'
- Price Realised: 12,500
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- oil on canvas
- 27 by 39cm., 10.5 by 15.5in.
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'THE KILLARNEY BOY'
- Price Realised: 12,000
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on canvas
- 25 x 35in. (63½ x 88.90cm)
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'IN THE STUDIO'
- Price Realised: 10,000
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on canvas board
- 46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in.
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'DIALOGUE OF THE ANGELS or A DIALOGUE OF ANGELS'
- Price Realised: 10,000
- Sale: 20 September 2005
- oil on canvas
- 122 by 85cm., 48 by 33.5in.
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'BIRDS IN EMPTY CITY'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed lower left; original exhibition label on reverse
- 64 by 76cm., 25 by 30in.
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'ROSES'
- Price Realised: 9,000
- Sale: 19 February 2007
- oil on canvas
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'STRAND, 1977'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 26 May 2014
- oil on canvas
- 25 by 35in., 62.5 by 87.5cm.
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'THE BOUQUET'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on panel
- 31 by 23cm., 12.2 5 by 9.25in.
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'MARE AND FOAL VI'
- Price Realised: 8,000
- Sale: 04 December 2023
- oil on canvas
- 25 x 35in. (63½ x 88.90cm)
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'BUTTERFLY BOY, c.1978'
- Price Realised: 7,800
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed lower right; studio label on reverse
- 38 by 64cm., 15 by 25in.
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'PORTRAIT OF JOYCE'
- Price Realised: 7,618
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 46cm., 24 by 18in.
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'FIGURES ON A STAIRCASE, YORK STREET, DUBLIN, 1942'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 02 December 2019
- oil on canvas
- 40 x 24in. (101.60 x 60.96cm)
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'THE WILD PONIES OF CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 29 February 2016
- oil on canvas
- 38 x 50in. (96.52 x 127cm)
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'JOYCE'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 06 March 2023
- oil on canvas
- 24 x 18in. (60.96 x 45.72cm)
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'SUMMER BOUQUET AND CONCH SHELL'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'SEA HORSES'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 04 December 2023
- oil on canvas
- 16 x 25in. (40.64 x 63½cm)
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'THE RIVER LEE'
- Price Realised: 5,600
- Sale: 06 March 2023
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 12½ x 24Όin. (31Ύ x 61.60cm)
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'SEA HORSES'
- Price Realised: 5,600
- Sale: 28 May 2018
- oil on canvas
- 16 x 25in. (40.64 x 63½cm)
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'MOUNTAIN TREK'
- Price Realised: 5,200
- Sale: 31 May 2021
- oil on canvas
- 25 x 35in. (63½ x 88.90cm)
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'BOY AND DOG, 1979'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 87cm., 24 by 34.2 5in.
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'SUMMER EVENING, c.1967'
- Price Realised: 4,900
- Sale: 02 October 2023
- oil on canvas
- 30 x 35in. (76.20 x 88.90cm)
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'THE FAVOURED ROSE, c.1966'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- oil on canvas
- 16 x 22in. (40.64 x 55.88cm)