Wednesday 29 November 2023
Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS, British 1877-1970 - Study for 'Salt and Saucy', c.1923; charcoal on...
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Description
Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS,
British 1877-1970 -
Study for 'Salt and Saucy', c.1923;
charcoal on paper, signed lower right 'Laura Knight', 15.7 x 23 cm (ARR)
Provenance:
the artist's studio (according to a copy of a purchase invoice);
with Blond Fine Art, London (according to a copy of a purchase invoice);
Bloomsbury Auctions, London, Conjuring & Circus: Books, Prints, Posters and Apparatus, 8th September 2011, lot 00667;
Lena Boyle Fine Art, London;
private collection, purchased from the above 15th June 2012 (according to a copy of the original invoice)
Note:
Blond Fine Art held an exhibition, 'Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS 1877-1954' in 1980 which has been described as the second important posthumous exhibition of her work. Jonathan Blond is also referenced and acknowledged in books on the artist. The work appears to relate to the Knight's painting and mezzotint of the elephants 'Salt and Saucy, 1923', made while the artist was sketching at Swallows Circus at Islington, which was managed by John 'Bronco Bill' Swallow (1922-23).
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