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Circus
signed
pencil on paper
c. 1928
17.8 x 27.3cm; 7 x 10¾ in.
SOLD
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Barbary Lambs
signed and titled by the artist
pencil on paper
25.3 x 36.7cm.
£850 (framed)
A charming pencil study of two Barbary lambs by Laura Knight. Barbary
Sheep are native to the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. A group of sheep
was imported by London Zoo in 1842. Barbary Sheep owe their name to the
old name for the North African region, the Barbary coast.
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Evening Pool
Charcoal on paper
1960
signed titled and dated
34.4 x 25.5cm.
£1,250 (framed)
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Full length study of a medieval soldier
signed by the artist
conté crayon on paper
37 x 27 cm.
(with conservation mount and board)
The sheet is in good condition apart from two brown marks along the central
axis of the sheet.
£350
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Oil Paint and Grease Paint. Autobiography
of Laura Knight. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited,
1936.
First Edition.
8vo
SIGNED BY LAURA KNIGHT WITH A FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF A CLOWN
on the half-title page.
Frontispiece portrait of the artist, numerous other plain plates reproducing
her paintings, drawings and prints, original maroon cloth, yellow and
red spine label, some light scattered spotting and browning, rubbed along
hinge and a bit shaken. A very good copy of this fascinating autobiography,
giving great insight into the work and inspiration of the British artist,
perhaps best-known for her paintings of the circus. Signed copies of this
title are scarce; however this one complete with a lively original drawing
of a clown (one of Knight's favourite subjects) is scarcer still. The
catalogue raisonne of her Graphic Work illustrates another copy of her
autobiography with a small vignette drawing of a dancer by the artist.
References: Bolling and Withington, The Graphic Work of Laura Knight,
1993, p. 95.
£600.00
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