View of a Cornfield: Corn Stooks

Details

DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A., R.W.S. (LONG EATON, DERBYSHIRE 1877-1970 LONDON)
View of a Cornfield: Corn Stooks
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with scratching out, on prepared paper
22 1⁄8 x 30 ½ in. (56.2 x 77.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Ian MacNicol, Glasgow, 1952.

Exhibited

Glasgow, Ian MacNicol Galleries, Exhibition of water colours and oil paintings by Dame Laura Knight, O.B.E., R.A., October 1952, probably no. 12.

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Lot Essay

This large-scale and freely painted watercolour is typical of Knight's work in the 1940s, particularly that made at Malvern during and immediately after World War II. Two similar watercolours of cornfields are in the UK Government Art Collection, acquired directly from the artist in 1953 (inv. 2103 and 2104).

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