‡Dame Laura Knight DBE, RA, RWS (1877-1970) Prisoners in the Dock at the Nuremberg Trial No.2 Signed, inscribed and dated Nuremberg 1946 Laura Knight (lower right) Coloured chalks and watercolour 76.7 x 56cm Provenance: Collection of the artist, 1963; Private Collection, UK Literature: To be included in John Croft’s of catalogue raisonné of Knight’s work Exhibited: London, The Royal Institute Galleries, The Society of Graphic Artists; Worthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Dame Laura Knight May-June 1963, no.25; Long Eaton, Long Eaton Library, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Dame Laura Knight June-July 1963, no. 73 This lot and lot 148 are studies for Laura Knight's 'The Nuremberg Trial, 1946' (Imperial War Museum, London, inv. no. ART LD 5798). The painting was a commission from the War Artists Advisory Committee, for which she was appointed a 'war correspondent' and made a special BBC broadcast from Nuremberg. She gained special access to the broadcasting box just above the prisoners where she was able to make charcoal studies of the main protagonists amongst the lawyers and the accused. In this work, we see Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk and Hjalmar Schacht, with Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche in the row behind. Read more »
‡Dame Laura Knight DBE, RA, RWS (1877-1970) Prisoners in the Dock at the Nuremberg Trial No.2 Signed, inscribed and dated Nuremberg 1946 Laura Knight (lower right) Coloured chalks and watercolour 76.7 x 56cm Provenance: Collection of the artist, 1963; Private Collection, UK Literature: To be included in John Croft’s of catalogue raisonné of Knight’s work Exhibited: London, The Royal Institute Galleries, The Society of Graphic Artists; Worthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Dame Laura Knight May-June 1963, no.25; Long Eaton, Long Eaton Library, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Dame Laura Knight June-July 1963, no. 73 This lot and lot 148 are studies for Laura Knight's 'The Nuremberg Trial, 1946' (Imperial War Museum, London, inv. no. ART LD 5798). The painting was a commission from the War Artists Advisory Committee, for which she was appointed a 'war correspondent' and made a special BBC broadcast from Nuremberg. She gained special access to the broadcasting box just above the prisoners where she was able to make charcoal studies of the main protagonists amongst the lawyers and the accused. In this work, we see Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk and Hjalmar Schacht, with Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche in the row behind. Read more »
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