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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 11, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Irish Art | 22 | $****** - ****** | Good | PORTRAIT OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
paintings
102 x 76.5 cm (40.16 x 30.12 in)
oil on canvas
signed l.l.:��_J. Lavery, signed, titled and dated on the reverse: George Bernard Shaw/ by/ John Lavery/ 1929
Private Collection, U.S.A.,��_by whom gifted to the University of Hartford, Connecticut in 1963
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1925, no.352; New York, Duveen Galleries, Portraits, Interiors and Landscapes by Sir John Lavery, RA, RSA, RHA, LLD, November-December 1925, no.17; Boston, Robert C. Vose Galleries, Portraits and Landscapes by Sir John Lavery, December 1925 - January 1926, no.13; Harrisburgh, The Art Association of Harrisburgh, Paintings by Sir John Lavery RA, February - March 1926, no.20; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Portraits, Interiors and Landscapes by Sir John Lavery, March - April 1926, no.23; Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1926, no. 29; Florida, Palm Beach, Whitehall, Portraits, Interiors and Landscapes by Sir John Lavery RA, RSA, RHA, LLD, January - February, 1927, no.11; Stockholm, The British Artists�۪ Exhibition, October 1929; Tokyo, The British Artists�۪ Exhibition, 1930
The Royal Academy Illustrated, 1925, p.98 (illus. in original state); ���The Royal Academy of 1925�۪, Aberdeen Press and Journal, 2 May 1925, p.4; ���Many Pictures of the Year�۪, The Manchester Guardian, 2 May 1925, pp. 7, 9 (illus.) (quoted in McConkey, 2010, p. 165); ���Sir John Lavery�۪s Work�۪, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 5 May 1925, p.9; ���Clear and Arresting Portraits by Well-Known Artists�۪, The Sphere, 9 May 1925, p.22 (illus.); ���The Royal Academy ��� Stage Pictures�۪, The Stage, 7 May 1925, p.19; ���The Royal Academy�۪, Western Morning News, 2 May 1925, p.6; ���The Royal Academy�۪, Western Daily Press, 2 May 1925, p.10; ���Royal Hibernian Academy�۪, Belfast Newsletter, 13 April 1926, p.6; ���Sir John Lavery and Bernard Shaw�۪, The Northern Whig, 2 October 1929, p.6; ���British Art on Show in Sweden�۪, Nottingham Journal, 17 October 1929, p.5; John Lavery, The Life of a Painter, 1940, pp.161-2; Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World,��Atelier Books, 2010,��pp.165-6, 169 (illus. in original state), 190, 238 (note 91)
signed l.l.:��J. Lavery; signed, titled and dated on the reverse: George Bernard Shaw/ by/ John Lavery/ 1929 oil on canvas 102 by 76.5cm., 40 by 30in.
