Price

£22000.00

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Going to School.

Oil on Canvas.

Artist - Laura Knight.

Signed.

 

Laura Knight was without question one of the leading British female artists of the twentieth century. She studied Art at Nottingham School of Art and in 1898 set up a studio in the northern fishing village of Staithes. It was here that she developed her skills as an artist, and she and her future husband Harold Knight became the leading members of the Staithes Group of Artists.

Following a period of painting in Holland and the resulting successful London exhibitions, the Knights moved to Newlyn and came under the influence of the leading light of the Newlyn Colony, Stanhope Forbes. Laura was entranced by the Cornish landscape and light, and it was here that she produced some of her best work.

In 1918, following the end of the First World War, the Knights moved to St. John’s Wood in London, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Some time after this Laura became fascinated by the circus and turned her considerable talents to depicting all aspects of circus life. Later she also worked at Olympia, painting the circus acts that were performing there from the Bertram Mills Circus.

The present painting is one of a group of similar subjects painted around 1903, and one of these was her first Hull. It has the same title as the present painting, which might well be a study for the Ferens painting as three of the figures are almost identical but in the larger painting Laura has added an elder girl.

Dimensions

36.83cm x 43.18cm

Price

£22000.00



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