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

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

Tangier, the White City

signed, dated and inscribed lower left Tangier - The White City J. Lavery 93, with an inscription on the reverse John Lavery The White City Tangier by John Lavery 75 Chelsea Gardens SW,oil on canvas
24 x 32in. (61 x 81.4cm.)

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, London

Literature

W. Shaw-Sparrow, John Lavery and his Work, London, 1912, pp.183, 184, 189
K. McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Edinburgh, 1993, p.92, pl.102

Exhibited

Ghent, 1902 (not traced)
Berlin, Schulte Gallery, John Lavery, 1904 (not traced)
London, Goupil Gallery, John Lavery, August 1908, no.51

Lot Essay

Lavery first visited Tangier in Morocco in 1890. He had a long relationship with 'The White City', which his friend and fellow artist R.B. Cunnighame Graham had described thus: 'the chief note of Tangier is its whiteness. White houses, sands like snow, and, above all, a dazzling white atmosphere'. In 1903 Lavery bought Dar-el-Midfah, Lavery bought a small house in the hills outside Tangier which he contined to visit with his family for the next 20 years.
(see K. McConkey, op. cit., p.83)

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