LES SEPT SOEURS PEINTES PAR PEDER BALKE

PEDER BALKE (1804-1887)
Massif des Sept Sœurs (1072 m)
Norvège

In "The Seven Sisters Mountain Range (c 1845-50)", oil on panel, 25 x 31 cm, Private collection. 

Les montagnes
Les Sept Sœurs, sont un massif montagneux de Norvège situé sur l'île d'Alsten, dans le comté de Nordland, au sud-ouest de Mo i Rana.
Du nord-est au sud-ouest, les sept sommets sont :
le Botnkrona (1 072 m)
le Grytfoten (1 019 m)
le Skjæringen (1 037 m)
le Tvillingene (« les Jumeaux ») (945 m et 980 m)
le Kvasstinden (1 010 m)
le Breitinden (910 m)

Le peintre
Peder Balke, né Peter Andersenest un peintre norvégien. Connu pour son interprétation positive de la nature de la Norvège, il a contribué à donner une vue spectaculaire et romantique des paysages de ce pays En juin 1848, Dahl a écrit à Dresde que Balke était « communiste maintenant et s’occupe ici et surtout à Paris plus de politique que d’étude de la peinture. » Utilisant de plus en plus de matériaux semblables à ceux des artisans – comme des sections de planches de bois comme support – et une peinture directe évitant les méthodes artistiques traditionnelles, il a commencé, à la fin des années 1860, à s’éloigner du public et son œuvre est devenue plus distinctive. Il semble avoir abandonné la peinture en tant que profession, bien qu’il ait continué à peindre en privé jusqu’à au moins 1879, lorsque Kunstnerlund, alors appelé Balkeby, fut anéanti par les flammes. En 1865, Balkeby comptait 300 habitants, surtout des ouvriers, qui avaient pris des pensionnaires, de sorte que la population augmenta. En dépit des règles strictes mises en place pour les bâtiments, y compris pour les plus grands, par Balke, afin de prévenir les incendies, de nombreuses maisons de Balkeby furent anéanties, lors de l’incendie du 13 juin 1879. Son dernier tableau daté remonte à cette année-là et, à sa mort, en 1887, il était un citoyen respecté mais essentiellement oublié. L’exposition, à l’occasion du Jubilé du centenaire de la Constitution norvégienne, à Oslo en 1914, a renouvelé l’intérêt envers son œuvre.

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2025 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
par Francis Rousseau

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AGHLA MORE PAINTED BY JAMES HUMBERT CRAIG

JAMES HUMBERT CRAIG (1878-1944)

Aghla More / Eachla Mör  (584 m -1,916 ft)

Ireland

 In Muckish Mountain, oil on canvas, 1935

The mountain 

Aghla More / Eachla Mör  (584 m -1,916 ft) is a mountain in County Donegal, Ireland. The mountain is the third most southern and fourth highest of the mountain chain, called the 'Seven Sisters' by localshas several names as Muckish, Crocknalaragagh, Aghla Beg, Ardloughnabrackbaddy, Aghla More, Mackoght, also known as 'little Errigal' and Errigal !  

The Seven Sisters are part of the Derryveagh Mountain range.

The painter 

James Humbert Craig was an Irish painter. Craig was born in Belfast to Alexander Craig, a tea merchant, and a Swiss mother, Marie Metzenen, from a family with a painting tradition. He was raised in County Down and maintained a studio at Cushendun, County Antrim. Craig abandoned a career in business, briefly attended the Belfast School of Art, and became a mostly self-taught painter of landscapes. Among his favorite panoramas were Donegal, Connemara and the Glens of Antrim. Craig was elected to the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1928. He also exhibited at the Fine Art Society in London. 

 His landscapes helped inspire artists like Maurice Canning Wilks.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

AGHLA MORE / EACHLA MÖR BY PAUL HENRY

 PAUL HENRY (1876-1958) 

Aghla More / Eachla Mör  (584 m -1,916 ft)

Ireland

The mountain 

Aghla More / Eachla Mör  (584 m -1,916 ft) is a mountain in County Donegal, Ireland. The mountain is the third most southern and fourth highest of the mountain chain, called the 'Seven Sisters' by locals (Muckish, Crocknalaragagh, Aghla Beg, Ardloughnabrackbaddy, Aghla More, Mackoght (also known as 'little Errigal') and Errigal. The Seven Sisters are part of the Derryveagh Mountain range.

The painter
Paul Henry was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape and particularly landscapes of Achill Island and Connemara in a spare post-impressionist style. Born in Belfast, Ireland, the son of a Baptist minister, Paul Henry began studying at Methodist College Belfast in 1882. During this period he first began drawing regularly. At the age of fifteen he moved to the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He studied art in Belfast before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and at Whistler's studio. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and returned to Ireland in 1910. From then until 1919 he lived on , where he learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to the West of Ireland. In 1919 he moved to Dublin and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters.  In the 1920s and 1930s Paul Henry was Ireland's best known artist, one who had a considerable influence on the popular image of the west of Ireland. Although he seems to have ceased experimenting with his technique after he left Achill and his range is limited, he created a large body of fine images whose familiarity is a testament to its influence. The National Gallery of Ireland held a major exhibition of his work in 2004.
A painting by Paul Henry was featured on an episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, broadcast on 12 November 2006. The painting was given a value of approximately £40,000 - £60,000 by the roadshow. However, due to the buoyancy of the Irish art market at that time, it sold for €260,000 on 5 December 2006 in James Adams' and Bonhams' joint Important Irish Art sale.

MOUNT ERRIGAL PAINTED BY PAUL HENRY

PAUL HENRY (1877-1958)

 Mount Errigal  (751m - 2, 464 ft)

Ireland 

The mountain

Mount Errigal  (751m - 2, 464 ft) called in Irish An Earagail, possibly meaning "oratory" is a mountain near Gweedore in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the tallest peak of the Derryveagh Mountains, the tallest peak in County Donegal, and the 76th tallest peak in Ireland.  Errigal is also the most southern, steepest and highest of the mountain chain, called the "Seven Sisters" by locals. The Seven Sisters includes Muckish, Crocknalaragagh, Aghla Beg, Ardloughnabrackbaddy, Aghla More, Mackoght and Errigal. The nearest peak is Mackoght, which is also known as Little Errigal or Wee Errigal (Irish: an Earagail Bheag). Errigal is well known for the pinkish glow of its quartzite in the setting sun. Another noted quality is the ever-changing shape of the mountain depending on what direction you view it from. Errigal was voted 'Ireland's Most Iconic Mountain' by Walking & Hiking Ireland in 2009.
Climbing
The mountain is most often climbed from the carpark off the R251 road. The route initially starts off by crossing heavily eroded and boggy land towards a visible track through the shiny scree from where the ascent proper starts. After reaching the summit, people usually walk the short but exposed walk along ‘One Man’s Pass’ which leads across to the second and lower of the twin summits. No special equipment is needed to climb the mountain, but caution is advised.

The painter
Paul Henry was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape and particularly landscapes of Achill Island and Connemara in a spare post-impressionist style. Born in Belfast, Ireland, the son of a Baptist minister, Paul Henry began studying at Methodist College Belfast in 1882. During this period he first began drawing regularly. At the age of fifteen he moved to the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He studied art in Belfast before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and at Whistler's studio. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and returned to Ireland in 1910. From then until 1919 he lived on , where he learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to the West of Ireland. In 1919 he moved to Dublin and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters.  In the 1920s and 1930s Paul Henry was Ireland's best known artist, one who had a considerable influence on the popular image of the west of Ireland. Although he seems to have ceased experimenting with his technique after he left Achill and his range is limited, he created a large body of fine images whose familiarity is a testament to its influence. The National Gallery of Ireland held a major exhibition of his work in 2004.
A painting by Paul Henry was featured on an episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, broadcast on 12 November 2006. The painting was given a value of approximately £40,000 - £60,000 by the roadshow. However, due to the buoyancy of the Irish art market at that time, it sold for €260,000 on 5 December 2006 in James Adams' and Bonhams' joint Important Irish Art sale.
Source: 
- Paul Henry and Achill Island