A rare, small still-life by Dame Laura Knight | With Ellie Smith

As a celebrated figurative painter, Laura Knight is highly acclaimed for her large-scale compositions in a highly realist style. Only a handful of still-lifes by Knight are known, and although she was greatly celebrated for her other artistic talents, this striking work proves pronounced capacity and sensitivity for this genre.
Find this work at the Philip Mould Gallery's Frieze Masters 2023 booth (F7).
Laura Knight
Still life of Chrysanthemums, mid 1920s
Oil on canvas
Find out more about this work: philipmould.co...
Filmed by Mike Hopkins (@mikehopkinsfilm)

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A thought occurs to me, based upon Ellie's response to this painting. When an artist creates a work of art, such as this, it invites other people to ask about and to care about what they may have been feeling in that moment, and to wonder who they are as a person. That is a process which we sorely lack for those of us who create no art. Where are the moments of self-exploration such as the one Laura Knight might have experienced as she painted this, and the moments of empathy those who view it have? How can we generate that same inclination to give a damn about the people around us? Why do most societies devote almost nothing towards this endeavour? How can that be changed?

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