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by Sir John Lavery

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Played

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Sir John Lavery

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Painting - Print On Paper

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1885 evocation by Sir John Lavery of an idyllic afternoon's tennis on a hot summer's day. The style is bold and post-impressionistic, and somewhat at odds with the more finished portraits he is probably best known for. What is particularly impressive is the way Lavery has evoked the dazzling brightness of a hot summer's day, and the strong, almost abstract composition, which uses tight cropping and the court's white chalk lines to reinforce the powerful right-to-left movement of the central player - though how she manages to move at all in such an outfit is a mystery!

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February 27th, 2015

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