Gallery Notes

PREVIEW: The recent opening of a small exhibition at the Royal Academy (Laura Knight: A Working Life – until 2nd Feb. 2020) has brought to mind once again the achievement of Laura Knight, a prominent figure in the story of twentieth-century British art and one who has always been admired in our family. Both my grandfather and father bought and sold her charcoal drawings in prodigious quantities and, like them, I too have always appreciated Laura’s innate gift for drawing, aptly reflected in the title she chose for her 1965 autobiography, The Magic of a Line. Furthermore, since my involvement with a fine exhibition of her ballet paintings at Nottingham in 2008, I have been persuaded that a major, comprehensive retrospective of all aspects of her work at a London institution is long overdue...