Elizabeth Harvey-Lee
DAME LAURA KNIGHT (1877-1970)
At the Folies Bergeres
(1923 England)
Artists/Makers/Factories
DAME LAURA KNIGHT (1877-1970)
Medium
Original drypoint and aquatint
Signed/Inscribed/Dated
Signed in pencil. Annotated at the foot of the sheet "TRIAL/Print 7 3rd printing/ aquatint" and entitled.
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Width
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175.00mm wide
[6.89 inches wide]
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Height
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226.00mm high
[8.90 inches high]
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Literature
The Graphic Work of LAURA KNIGHT by G Frederick Bolling and Valerie A Withington, Scolar Press 1993
Condition
Good.
Mount-stained in the margins.
Description / Expertise
Original drypoint 1923.
(Reference Bolling & Withington 7 iii?/iii)
A trial proof. Signed and annotated. (The edition was 55)
Laura Knight found the audiences at the Folies Bergeres much more interesting to draw than English audiences.
When she visited Paris in 1923 she visited the Folies Bergeres as often as possible and painted several pictures as well as making a couple of etchings from notes on her return to England.
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