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

Sidi-bu-Said, Tunis

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Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. (1856-1941)
Sidi-bu-Said, Tunis
signed 'J Lavery' (lower left), signed, inscribed and dated 'Sidi-bu-Said Tunis by John Lavery 1919' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
15 x 21½in. (38 x 54.6cm.)

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John and Hazel Lavery spent the winter of 1919, as they did every year from around 1903, in Tangiers. They cruised around the coast of Morocco as far as Rabat and as far east as Tunis, where they stayed at the Arab Palace at Sidi-bu-Said.
(see K. McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Edinburgh, 1993, p.147).

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