WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 2024 FROM 6PM

31 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 2 DECEMBER 2024 AT 6PM Footnotes: 1 John Lavery to Eileen Lavery, letter dated 24 January 1917, Private Collection.; John Lavery, The Life of a Painter, 1940 (Cassell), pp. 141- 2; here Lavery records a brief visit to his old friend, Jacques-Émile Blanche. 2 These included the Duchess de Gramont, Mr & Mrs Walter Rubens (brother of the songwriter Paul A Rubens), General Henry Rawlinson and other senior officers on leave from the Front. Rawlinson’s portrait was painted during the stay. 3 Lavery designed a slotted box, roughly 25 x 30 inches, to take five standard canvases or canvas-boards which, when out on the motif, he slung over his shoulder. 4 John Lavery to Eileen Lavery, 21 February 1917 (Mardi Gras), Private Collection. 5 See for instance, The Turquoise Sea no 1, c. 1912, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; see https://artuk.org/discover/stories/john- laverys-seascapes-the-obsession-of-a-restless-painter . 6 Mimizan plage is lined with dunes that protect the low lying ‘Landes’ to this day. 7 Their host, Hugh Grosvenor, known as Bend’or, having fought with distinction in the Egyptian campaign, was recalled to London at the end of February, when the Laverys left. For Churchill’s version of the lake scene, see David Coombs with Minnie S Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill, His Life and his Paintings, 2011, (Ware House Publishing), p. 54 (C502). 8 See Kenneth McConkey, Lavery On Location, 2023, (exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), pp. 152-3 (nos 69 & 70).