Sir John Lavery RA RSA 1856-1941
Overview
Sunshine and Shade, exhibited 2007 - SOLD
Lavery spent much of his youth in France, at Grez-sur-Loing, the picturesque village a few miles south of Fontainebleau. For eight years before his arrival in 1883, Grez was continuously popular as an artists' colony, and after his departure the following year it began to be hailed as a crucible of modern painting, attracting painters from Britain, Ireland, America, Scandinavia and Japan.
Lavery came to Grez in 1883 and 1884 to learn. Two intense periods of concentrated work have left the most comprehensive record of life in the colony, depicting aspects of peasant life.
Works
Exhibitions
-
History of the New
1 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 Edinburgh, LondonOur summer show brings together artists who found themselves working at the threshold of the modern. It was this self-awareness and urge to make it new that motivated them as...Read more -
Portrait Mode
1 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 Edinburgh, LondonTo mark the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery this June, we're joining their celebration of all things portraiture in Portrait Mode. Galleries across the UK will be supporting the...Read more -
Lavery and The Glasgow Boys
7 Apr - 8 May 2010 Edinburgh, LondonNo one quite understood why art should flourish in grimy Glasgow at the turn of the twentieth century. Even in eulogies on the ‘second city of the Empire’ there was...Read more
