Lavery. On Location.

7 October 2023 - 14 January 2024 
Rooms 6 -10, Beit Wing | Ticketed

The highlight of the Gallery’s autumn programme is Lavery. On Location. On view in the Beit Wing from 7 October 2023 to 14 January 2024, this exhibition is organised by the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, in collaboration with National Museums NI and National Galleries of Scotland. John Lavery was an internationally renowned Irish painter at the turn of the 20th century, and the only Irishman to receive the Freedom of both Dublin and Belfast in the inter-war period, in a divided Ireland. He never travelled for business or pleasure without his painting kit. Paintings such as The Bridge at Grez have become the essential images of their times.

This exhibition will focus on some of the key destinations depicted in Lavery’s art from Scotland to Palm Springs. Special features will be the works produced at Grez-sur-Loing – his ‘happiest days’ - and in Tangier. There are also studies from Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Italy, and depictions of cities from Glasgow to London, Venice, Cannes and New York. Such was the richness and variety of Lavery’s work that Winston Churchill was led to conclude that his artistic mentor, was a ‘plein-airiste if ever there was one’.

Curator: Dr Kenneth McConkey & Dr Brendan Rooney

An exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, in collaboration with National Museums NI and National Galleries of Scotland.