Make-Up (Dressing Room)

Details

DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A., R.W.S. (DERBYSHIRE 1877-1970 LONDON)
Make-Up (Dressing Room)
signed and dated 'Laura Knight/1954' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (50.8 x 60.9 cm.)

Provenance

with M. Newman, London, by 1966.
with Richard Green, London, 1989, as 'Making up her Lips'.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 28 November 1996, lot 155.
Private Collection, UK.

Literature

L. Knight, Magic of a Line, London, 1965, p. 247 as ‘Dressing Room’.
The Connoisseur, July, 1966.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1964, no. 31.

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Lot Essay

A version of the present composition was executed in 1957 and subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art as 'Ballerinas, At the Make-Up Table' (sold Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2006, lot 198).

A label on the reverse indicates it may have been considered for Knight's retrospective at the Royal Academy in 1965. It was not however included.

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