ID 1105750
Lot 65 | DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1877-1970)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
My Lady of the Rocks
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.5 cm.)
Provenance
with The Leicester Galleries, London, 1918.
with Frost & Reed, London, where purchased by
Charles Harold St John Hornby (†); Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1949, lot 69, as Portrait of a Lady, seated, in a coastal landscape (10 ½ gns to Frost & Reed).
with G. Biddle & Sons, Brighton.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 1962, lot 158, as The Model Resting: a young Scotswoman in black, with a Scotch terrier beside her, seated on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea (70 gns to Walker).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 May 1966, lot 100, as Portrait of a Lady in a coastal landscape (60 gns to Hughes).
with Coughton Gallery, Alcester, until 1970, where purchased by
Private Collector, UK.
with Trinity House Fine Art, London, 2008, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
D. Tovey, 'Marjorie Taylor - Pinning down the Pin-up', The Flagstaff, issue no. 48, Winter 2021, pp. 14-15, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, "Camp Life" and Other Pictures by Laura Knight, London, 1918, no. 18.
Possibly, London, Alpine Gallery Club, 1922, no. 22, as A Girl on a Sea Wall.
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Lamorna Colony Pioneers, 3 May - 30 Sept 2023, unnumbered.
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