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DAME LAURA KNIGHT R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1877-1970)
At the Edge of the Cliff
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1917
Provenance
Possibly, with The Leicester Galleries, London, 1917.
Mrs R.J. Boyd, by 1940.
Ernest Brown & Phillips at The Leicester Galleries; Christie's, London, 2 August 1940, lot 122, as On the Edge of the Cliff (23 gns to Mitchell).
with N. Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, London.
with David Messum, The Studio, Marlow, 1988.
Private Collection, UK.
with Richard Green, London, 1999, from whom purchased by the present owner.
Literature
L. Wortley, British Impressionism. A Garden of Bright Images, London, 1988, p. 272, illustrated.
R. Pilcher, Coming Home, London, 1995, p. 387.
V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford, 2008, illustrated on front cover.
B. Hawthorne, Rosamunde Pilcher's Cornwall, Wellington, 2019, p. 90.
D. Tovey, 'Marjorie Taylor - Pinning down the Pin-up', The Flagstaff, issue no. 48, Winter 2021, p. 13, illustrated.
F. Blanchard & A. Spira (eds), Laura Knight A Panoramic View, exh. cat., London, 2021, p. 44, illustrated.
Exhibited
Marlow, David Messum, British Impressions, 1988, no. 91.
Leyburn, Tennants, Light & Shadow, 24 - 30 November 2018, no. 22.
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Laura Knight A Celebration, 17 May - 16 September 2021, unnumbered.
Milton Keynes, MK Gallery, Laura Knight A Panoramic View, 9 October 2021 - 20 February 2022, unnumbered.
Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Laura Knight & Caroline Walker: A female gaze, 19 March - 5 June 2022, unnumbered.
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.