Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. | TENNIS UNDER THE ORANGE TREES, CANNES
Auction Closed
September 9, 02:37 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.
1856 - 1941
TENNIS UNDER THE ORANGE TREES, CANNES
signed, dated and dedicated l.r.: To C.R. CHISMAN ESQ./ FROM JOHN LAVERY/ WITH MANY COMPLIMENTS/ 1930; also signed, titled and dated 1929 on a label attached to the frame
oil on canvas
45.5 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
Painted in 1929.
Charles Robert Chisman, the Artist’s secretary;
Winifred Williams Gallery, Eastbourne;
Private Collection, 1946, thence by family descent;
Richard Green, London;
Sotheby’s, London, 2 June 1995, lot 296
London, Royal Academy, 1929, no.194
Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2010, pp.185, 186, illustrated fig.216