SIR JOHN LAVERY RA RSA RP RHA HROI (1856 -- 1941)
Woman in an Arab Headdress
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1882
40.5cm x 30.5cm
Provenance : Private Irish collection.
Born in Belfast, but soon orphaned, Lavery spent his early years on his uncle's farm. At the age of ten, more family problems led to his relocation to Scotland where he attended the Haldane Academy in Glasgow. Afterwards he worked as an apprentice photographer and, from this experience he developed an ambition to become a portrait painter. He travelled to Paris in 1881, where he studied drawing at the Academie Julian and fine art painting at Colarossi's studio. In 1883, he spent time at the artists' colony of Grez-sur-Loing, and made friends with the older Irish artist Frank O'Meara as well as the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, both of whom influenced his painting. In 1883 he exhibited his first French landscape, “Les Deux Pecheurs”.
“Woman In An Arab Headdress” is an early work by Lavery produced when he is known to have painted head studies from costumed models in atelier Colarossi in Paris. A small number of these have survived and they reveal the rapid development of Lavery’s skill – particularly during the years 1881-2.
This Lavery portrait will be sold at McTear's Fine, Scottish & Contemporary Picture auction on 12 May
Find out more at http://www.mctears.co.uk/
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