PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
The Tennis Match
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Sir John Lavery
1856 - 1941
The Tennis Match
signed J Lavery and dated 1885 (lower right); titled (lower left)
oil on panel
28 by 38.5 cm. 11 by 15 in.
framed: 53 by 64 cm. 21 by 25¼ in.
Executed in 1885.
Sale, Sotheby's New York, 2 November 2001, lot 202, where acquired by the present owner
Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery: A Painter and his World, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2010, fig. 33, illustrated p. 33
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1886, no. 435 (details untraced)
London, Whitford and Hughes, Moments et Folies de la Femme Fatale, 1985, no. 19
Birmingham, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art, 27 May - 18 September 2011, fig. 3.11, illustrated in the exh. cat., p. 58
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Lavery. On Location., 7 October 2023 - 14 January 2024, illustrated in the exh. cat., with tour to Ulster Museum, Belfast and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
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