Modern British Day Auction

Modern British Day Auction

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Property of a Private Collection

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

Central Park, New York, Evening

Auction Closed

June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collection

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A.

1856 - 1941

Central Park, New York, Evening


signed J. Lavery (lower left); also signed John Lavery, titled, dated 1926 and inscribed New York (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

unframed: 76.5 by 63.5cm.; 30 by 25in.

framed: 98 by 85cm.; 38¾ by 33½in.

Executed in 1926.


We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. 

Family of the Artist, thence by descent to a Private Collection
Their sale, Christie's, London, 10 May 2007, lot 112, where acquired by the present owner
Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery: A Painter and His World, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2010, p. 172, illustrated fig. 201, p. 174