Tangier, 1907. A figure on the shoreline. The wind has its own opinion about where things should be.
A Windy Day is one of Lavery's most elemental paintings — a lone figure braced against the elements on a Moroccan beach, caught in a moment of pure physical struggle. Painted between 1907 and 1909 during his North African travels, the work strips everything back: just a person, a shoreline, and weather with something to prove. Lavery's handling of light and movement in difficult conditions is at its most assured.
It is a small painting that takes up a lot of space on a wall. The energy in it does not stay still.
Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) was born in Belfast, trained in Glasgow and Paris, and became one of the most celebrated painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His work is held in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Tate, and major collections worldwide.
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