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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Sir John Lavery, R.A.

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