Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. (1856-1941)

A Wet Day, Concarneau

Details

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. (1856-1941)
A Wet Day, Concarneau
signed 'J. Lavery' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'A wet day Concarneau J. Lavery 5 Cromwell Place London SW' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
11¼ x 13¼in. (28.5 x 33.7cm.)
Painted in 1904

Literature

W. Shaw-Sparrow, John Lavery and his Work, London, 1911, p.185.
K. McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Edinburgh, 1993, p.90, pl.101.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Cabinet Pictures by John Lavery, Nov. 1904, no.29 as 'A Grey Day at Concarneau'.

Lot Essay

Lavery travelled to Concarneau in 1903 where he visited Alexander Harrison, the brother of his contemporary Lowell Birge Harrison. Lavery was by now a successful portrait painter and Harrison, the principal follower of Bastien-Lepage, was still painting in the plein air method of the 1880s. The present work is the only surviving painting of this visit.
(see K. McConkey, loc. cit.).

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