Lavery — Tangier and the Riviera

Lavery first went to Tangier in the winter of 1890–91 and painted from the roof of the Hotel Continental; in 1903 he bought Dar-el-Midfah, the House of the Cannon, on the hill above the town, and wintered there most years until the war. The Riviera came later — February 1921, at Cap d’Ail, introduced by Churchill, who wrote that Lavery “shows us sunlight in all its variety”. Lavery’s own phrase for the work was plainer: “getting on with some canvases of sunshine”.

One light, three coasts, and the same unhurried hour of the day — which is why these hang together. Three at matching size is the arrangement; a pair either side of a window is the other.

Every print is open edition, made to order on archival paper, unframed or framed in black, white or wood, and shipped from the press nearest you. Part of the John Lavery collection.