Dame Laura Knight, R.A. (1877-1970)

The Fireside

Details

Dame Laura Knight, R.A. (1877-1970)
The Fireside
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right), signed again 'Laura Knight' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 x 12 in. (40.7 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1903

Exhibited

Nottingham, Castle Museum until 1975.

Lot Essay

By 1903 Laura and Harold Knight were living at Staithes in North Yorkshire, having been attracted by the plein air painting and low-key range of colour used by the followers of Bastien Lepage who were painting in this area. Laura Knight considered that at Staithes 'I found myself and what I might do'.
(see C. Fox, Dame Laura Knight, Oxford, 1988, p.18).

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