Gilding the Lily (Tchernecheva)

Artist Dame Laura Knight (English, 1877 - 1970)

Date1926

MediumSoft-ground with drypoint

DimensionsPlate: 11 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (29.21 × 19.05 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell

Object number57-115/44

On View

Not on view

Collections

Prints

Terms

Exhibition History

Encore Degas! Ballet, Fashion, and Movement, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 20, 2021–November 21, 2022, no cat.

Provenance

Possibly with Knoedler and Co., New York [1];

Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 14, 1957;

Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1957.

Notes:

[1] See inscription on verso, lower right, in pencil: Knoedler. A possible stock number might be 26735. See inscription, lower left, bottom edge of sheet, in pencil: MK [?] 26735.

Published References

G. Fredric Bolling and Valerie A. Withington, The Graphic Work of Laura Knight: Including a Catalogue Raisonné of Her Prints (Aldershot, Hants, England: Scolar Press, 1993), no. 47, pp. 31, 120, 143, (repro.), as Gilding the Lily.

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 284, as Gilding the Lily (Tchernecheva).

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