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Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970) Carn Bargis, Sennen Cove image 1
Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970) Carn Bargis, Sennen Cove image 2
Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970) Carn Bargis, Sennen Cove image 3
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Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS
(British, 1877-1970)
Carn Bargis, Sennen Cove

26 March 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £19,200 inc. premium

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Dame Laura Knight, RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970)

Carn Bargis, Sennen Cove
signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right); indistinctly inscribed with artist's name and address (on remnants of an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.2cm (25 x 30in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sold by the Executors of the artist's Estate, Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1970, lot 99.
With Julian Simon Fine Art.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's & Stephan Welz, Johannesburg, 2 November 1992, lot 314 (as Cliffs on the coast).
Private collection, UK.

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1935, no. 275.

The present lot depicts a well-known Cornish outcrop, not too far from Lands End and close to Laura Knight's studio hut at Lamorna, which had been built specially for her by the local squire at the time, Colonel Paynter. As Knight herself notes: 'Close by my hut, Carn Bargis towered. No human hand could have fashioned so architecturally magnificent a pile of granite. On the flat rocks below were deep pools for swimming and pools in which to paddle.1

We are grateful to John Croft for his assistance in cataloguing this work. The work is listed in the online catalogue of Laura Knight's work, under cat. no. 0163.

1Laura Knight, Oil Paint and Grease Paint, London, 1936, p. 191.

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