The Unfinished Harmony 1934 (Lady Lavery)
Artist
Sir John Lavery
(1856 - 1941)
Date1934
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions124.5 x 197.8 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Lady Lavery Memorial Bequest through Sir John Lavery, 1935.
Object number757
DescriptionIn the final year of her life Hazel was confined to Cromwell Place. She hated the isolation, so Lavery set up a canvas to paint while he kept her company. The narrow range of pink and purple tones which describe the room and Hazel's deathly pallor invest this painting with a sense of forboding. Her condition, myocarditis, caused her heart to weaken and she suffered a series of illnesses that finally resulted in delirium and death. When Hazel became too ill, Lavery ceased work on this canvas and when she died, it lay for some time in his studio turned to the wall. However, he completed this painting before presenting it to the Hugh Lane Gallery in memory of his wife in 1935.(Catalogue Entry [30]: Hazel, Lady Lavery Society and Politics, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 18 September - 3 November 1996, p. 225)
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