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Description: | Laura Knight came to London in 1919, having established her name as a painter of rural scenes, anglers, and gypsies. She was fascinated by the world of the performing arts, and London offered her many opportunities to draw ballet dancers and stage performers. She was fond of depicting the female figure at unguarded moments without sentimental overtones.
Here Knight shows a line of dancers on stage during a live performance of the can-can. Footlights illuminate them from below. In 1923, the year she completed this print, Knight published her earliest etchings and began to use aquatint. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | DACS Design and Artists Copyright Society | Subjects: | Leisure Art and Design | Temporal: | 1923 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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