Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

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Property of the Late Derek R. Strauss

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

A Moorish Harem

Auction Closed

November 21, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

1856 - 1941

A Moorish Harem


signed J Lavery, inscribed FEZ and dated 1907 (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 125 by 103.5cm.; 49½ by 40¾in.

framed: 145 by 119.5cm.; 57 by 47in.

Executed in 1907.

The Artist, thence by descent to the present owner   

Selwyn Brinton MA, ‘An English Artist in Morocco’, The Connoisseur, vol. XIX, September 1907, illustrated p. 35, p. 41

ACR Carter, ‘Recent Paintings by Mr Lavery’, The Art Journal, 1908, p. 234, illustrated p. 236

Selwyn Brinton, ‘Some Recent Paintings by John Lavery RSA, RHA’, The Studio, vol. XLV, December 1908, illustrated p. 178, 180

Walter Shaw Sparrow, John Lavery and his Work, 1911, Kegan Paul, Trubner, Trench & Co, p. 189

John Lavery, The Life of a Painter, Cassell, London, 1940, illustrated p. 103-4

Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Cannongate, Edinburgh, 1993, illustrated p. 94

Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, a Painter and his World, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2010, p. 97, illustrated p. 98, pp. 100, 228 (notes 101 & 102)

Kenneth McConkey, Lavery, On Location, 2023 (exh. cat.), National Gallery of Ireland, Ulster Museum, Belfast & National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh), illustrated p. 20, p. 100

London, Goupil Gallery, John Lavery RSA, RHA, June 1908, no. 3