Chloe

Details

Dame Laura Knight, R.A. (1877-1970)
Chloe
black chalk, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic, on paper
14¼ x 9 5/8 in. (36.2 x 24.5 cm.); with an autograph greetings card addressed to the first owners from the artist, dated 18 December 1957, illustrated with a pen and black ink sketch of a circus clown and horse (2)

Provenance

From the artist to Mr and Mrs Davies, of Lanfawr, by 28 December 1957.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, Oxford, 14 June 2005, lot 58.

Exhibited

Bournemouth, Russell Cotes Gallery, Art Inspired by Music, 1951, number untraced.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

This picture has been requested for the Laura Knight Portraits exhibition being organized by the National Portrait Gallery for 2013-14.

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Lot Essay

In 1926 Laura joined her husband who was carrying out portrait commissions in Baltimore, USA. Arising from the artist's great friendship with William S. Baer, the orthopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins Memorial Hospital, Knight gained consent to go round the wards in the hospital and execute drawings and sketches, resulting in the present portrait illustrating one of the nurses.

We are grateful to John Croft for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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