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DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1877-1970)

Lot 16
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Lot 16 | DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1877-1970)
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£ 350 000 – 450 000
DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1877-1970)

At the Edge of the Cliff

signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left)

oil on canvas

23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm.)

Painted circa 1917





Provenance

Possibly, with The Leicester Galleries, London, 1917.

Mrs R.J. Boyd, by 1940.

Ernest Brown & Phillips at The Leicester Galleries; Christie's, London, 2 August 1940, lot 122, as On the Edge of the Cliff (23 gns to Mitchell).

with N. Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, London.

with David Messum, The Studio, Marlow, 1988.

Private Collection, UK.

with Richard Green, London, 1999, from whom purchased by the present owner.



Literature

L. Wortley, British Impressionism. A Garden of Bright Images, London, 1988, p. 272, illustrated.

R. Pilcher, Coming Home, London, 1995, p. 387.

V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford, 2008, illustrated on front cover.

B. Hawthorne, Rosamunde Pilcher's Cornwall, Wellington, 2019, p. 90.

D. Tovey, 'Marjorie Taylor - Pinning down the Pin-up', The Flagstaff, issue no. 48, Winter 2021, p. 13, illustrated.

F. Blanchard & A. Spira (eds), Laura Knight, A Panoramic View, exh. cat., London, 2021, p. 44, illustrated.



Exhibited

Marlow, David Messum, British Impressions, 1988, no. 91.

Leyburn, Tennants, Light & Shadow, 24 - 30 November 2018, no. 22.

Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Laura Knight: A Celebration, 17 May - 16 September 2021, unnumbered.

Milton Keynes, MK Gallery, Laura Knight, A Panoramic View, 9 October 2021 - 20 February 2022, unnumbered.

Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Laura Knight & Caroline Walker: A female gaze, 19 March - 5 June 2022, unnumbered.



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