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Winter in Florida is the most important outcome of Sir John Lavery’s sojourn at the famous Breakers Hotel, recently reopened for the 1927 New Year celebrations.
It was his second visit to the United States in less than a year, and it came at the end of a highly successful touring exhibition which began at the Duveen Galleries on Fifth Avenue in November 1925. On the first trip Lavery attended the opening and remained until January 1926, carrying out a number of commissions in New York and Boston, before returning to London. Others were left pending his return in November, after which he would rejoin his exhibition at its final venue at Whitehall, Palm Beach, now the Flagler Museum. Christmas in Florida was regarded as a working holiday, for here the artist painted beach scenes by the pier and the hotel foyer, while a second canvas, also entitled Winter in Florida (Ulster Museum, Belfast), depicts neighbouring tennis courts.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 97.4 x 128.2 cm]
