| Art Auction 2010 - Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS |
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Dancer(Pencil drawing, 24cm x 18cm, 9.5" x 7")
Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS was born in Derbyshire in 1877. She was an Impressionist who painted the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus, and she knew some of the most famous ballet dancers of the day from Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Lydia Lopokova and Anna Pavlova. She was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy. She died in 1970. Website: Dame Laura Knight |
