Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970) Knitting image 1

Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970) Knitting image 2

Lot 70^AR

Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS
(British, 1877-1970)
Knitting

19th Century and British Impressionist Art

29 March 2023, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £8,925 inc. premium

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Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970)

Knitting
signed 'LJohnson' (lower left)
pastel
39.5 x 49.5cm (15 9/16 x 19 1/2in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Cumbria.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited
Nottingham, Nottingham Castle Museum, 22nd Annual exhibition of pictures in oil and water colour by local artists, 12th May – 25th August, 1900, no. 251.
Penzance, Penlee House, Laura Knight a Celebration 17th May – 16th
September, 2021.

This work is listed in the Laura Knight catalogue raisonné currently in preparation by Mr R. John Croft FCA, as cat. no. 0100.

The present lot is an interesting early work, showing the influence of Edward Stott, an artist that Laura Knight admired. Painted in Staithes before Laura's marriage to Harold Knight, the present work is signed with the artist's maiden name, Johnson. For similar early work, see for example Fisherfolk baiting lines on the cobbles, Staithes (sold in these rooms, 2 March 2016, lot 94), and The Beach, Staithes (Christie's, London, 3 March 1999, lot 53).

Knight described the time she and Harold spent in Staithes as having a 'tremendous influence on work, life and power of endurance. It was there I found myself and what I might do'.¹

¹Laura Knight, Oil Paint and Grease Paint, London, 1936, p.75.

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