BREAKING NEWS – Friday 13th JULY 2016

‘A PORTRAIT OF FLORENCE’ BY NOTTINGHAM ARTIST HAROLD KNIGHT SELLS FOR A RECORD PRICE OF £380,000 AT CHRISTIE’S SOUTH KENSINGTON

Friday 13TH JULY 2016

 

 

Harold Knight’s painting of Carter-Wood ‘A Portrait of Florence’ far exceeded expectations when it sold today at Christie’s South Kensington for £380,000, £230,000 above it’s top estimate.

The painting captures Carter-Wood in 1901-10 as she was falling in love with her future husband, the artist Alfred Munnings.  At the time Florence was also growing close to Captain Gilbert Evans, with whom she would allegedly have an affair and become pregnant before ending her life in 1914.

The artist Harold KNIGHT was born in Nottingham in 1874.  The son of an architect he studied at the Nottingham School of Art in 1893. It was at the Art School he met his wife to be, the  Nottinghamshire artist  Laura Knight (nee Johnson).  In 1907, the Knights moved to Lamorna in Cornwall, where they became central figures in the growing artists colony.  The Lamorna group of artists’ emphasis on colour and light, truth and social realism bought about a revolution in British art which was to remain influential to this day.

 

Sir Harold Knight and Dame Laura Knight

This puts our Great Nottingham artists back  where they once belonged.  What a Thrilling Day!

Claire Moore BA (Hons)

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