SIR JOHN LAVERY R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A., P.R.P., H.R.O.I., L.L.B. (IRISH 1856-1941)
MRS LEO D'ERLANGER
£3,528
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale: 08 December 2022 | From 18:00
Description
Signed and stamped, inscribed verso, oil on board
Dimensions
49cm x 25cm (19.25in x 9.75in)
Provenance
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings, 30 October 1964, lot 191
Exhibited: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, Their Majesties’ Court, Buckingham Palace, 1931, Portrait Studies and Other Sketches by Sir John Lavery RA, November 1932
Footnote
Mrs Leo d’Erlanger (née Edwina Prue, 1907-1994) was a New Yorker, and junior editor of Vanity Fair when she married Baron Leo Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger, son of the painter and musicologist, Baron Rodolphe François d’Erlanger. In the twenties he joined the family bank run by his uncle, Emile. Both Rodolphe and Emile were friends of the Laverys, the painter having supported their protest against internment as enemy aliens during the Great War. Lavery painted a second sketch of Mrs d’Erlanger at the Court (Sold Bonhams 14 November 2012) and her portrait was also painted by Laszlo in 1937.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for the cataloguing of these artworks.