SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.S.A., R.H.A., R.A. (1856-1941)

Lot 26
19.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1388287
Lot 26 | SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.S.A., R.H.A., R.A. (1856-1941)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.S.A., R.H.A., R.A. (1856-1941)
The Hall, Argyll House - A Summer Day
signed 'J. Lavery' (lower right)
oil on panel
23 7/8 x 18 in. (60.7 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1925.




Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1988, lot 33.
with Richard Green, London.
Acquired by the present owner in June 1998.



Literature

‘Luxury Shown on Canvas: Sir John Lavery’s Skill’, Daily News, 5 October 1925, p. 3.
D. MacCarthy, ‘Sir John Lavery’s Portrait Interiors’, Apollo, Vol. 2, 1925, p. 271.
K. McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Edinburgh, 1993, pp. 174, 226, fig. 209.
K. McConkey, Sir John Lavery: A Painter and His World, Edinburgh, 2010, p. 169.



Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Portrait Interiors by Sir John Lavery, October 1925, no. 9, as ‘Argyll House’.
New York, Duveen Galleries, Portraits, Interiors and Landscapes, by Sir John Lavery, November - December 1925, no. 22, as ‘Argyll House’.
Harrisburg, Art Association of Harrisburg, Paintings by Sir John Lavery, February - March 1926, no. 7, as ‘Argyll House’.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Portraits, Interiors and Landscapes, by Sir John Lavery, March - April 1926, no. 1, as ‘Argyll House’.
Whitehall, Palm Beach, Portraits, Interiors and Landscapes, by Sir John Lavery, January - February 1927, no. 16, as ‘Argyll House’.



Further Details

We are very grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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