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Sir John Lavery RA RHA RSA (1856-1941) DAWN, WHER

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Sir John Lavery RA RHA RSA (1856-1941) DAWN, WHER
<B>Sir John Lavery RA RHA RSA (1856-1941)</B><BR>DAWN, WHERE "THE JEWS RIVER" JOINS THE SEA<BR>signed and inscribed lower right; signed again, inscribed and dated [1910] on reverse<BR>oil on canvas board<BR>25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.<BR>Provenance:<BR>Gift from the artist to his best man, Robert Cunninghame Graham MP (1852-1936); By descent to his niece; Private collection Dawn is one of the simplest and most evocative of Lavery's small seascapes painted at Tangier. While he sometimes declared that his winter sojourns on the North African coast helped him to wash the dull London studio light from his eyes, the experience also endlessly challenged him to compose what, in the present example, is an almost abstract composition – a taste which he derived from Whistler. As Vice-President during Whistler's presidency of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Lavery would have been familiar with seascapes such as Grey and Silver, Trouville, (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington) and Green and Silver, The Great Sea, (Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow), which Whistler showed at the International Society shows of 1899 and 1901 respectively. He would have seen Monet's La Plage des Petites Dalles (destroyed), shown at the second of these exhibitions and would have also been aware of the enormous influence of such works in the years up to 1910, on artists as diverse as William Nicholson and William John Leech. It is worth pointing out however, that by this stage Lavery had already produced notable Tangier beach scenes – particularly Tangier - The White City, 1893 (Private Collection). 38565
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