Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Property of the Late Derek R. Strauss
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