Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

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Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. | LADY EVELYN FARQUHAR

Auction Closed

September 9, 02:37 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

1856 - 1941

LADY EVELYN FARQUHAR


signed l.l.: J. Lavery; also signed and titled on the reverse

oil on canvas

184 by 120.5cm., 72½ by 47½in.

Painted in 1906. 

The sitter, and thence by descent;

Their sale, Christie's, London, 12 November 1976, lot 94;

Private Collection, U.S.A.;

Their sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 May 2007, lot 44

ACR Carter, ‘Recent Work by Mr Lavery’, The Art Journal, 1908, p.234, illustrated p.235;

The Times, 18 June 1908, p.19;

Walter Shaw Sparrow, John Lavery and his Work, n.d. 1911, Kegan Paul, Trubner, Trench and Co, pp.144-5, 187, 192, illustrated opposite p.140;

A Stodart Walker, ‘The Art of John Lavery, RSA, ARA etc’, The Studio, vol. 62, June 1914, p.4, illustrated p.6;

Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Canongate 1993, p. 114, fig.135;

Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2010, pp.91-92, illustrated fig.105

Dublin, Irish International Exhibition, 1907, no.53;

London, Goupil Gallery, John Lavery RSA, RHA, June 1908, no.40;

Venice, IX Biennale, Monstra Individuale di John Lavery RSA, RHA, 1910, no.8