Lavery travelled a lot and painted in a
range of genres. It was therefore a wise plan to structure this book around key
elements in Lavery's career, such as his friendship with Whistler and his visits
to Tangier, rather than trying for a strictly chronological narrative, which
would inevitably be very confusing. However, equally inevitably, the
biographical skeleton then becomes a little difficult to reconstruct, and a
chronology would have been helpful.
There are plenty of paintings illustrated -- mostly in black and white, but with
a good sprinking of colour plates -- and plenty of commentary on them, although
it is rather too often of an emotional rather than a technical nature. The
author is occasionally carried away into misusing words and phrases: something
that happens sufficiently often to have provoked previous readers of this
library copy into annotating it with corrections; but that is really an
editorial shortcoming.
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