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Description: | Laura Knight was fascinated by the performing arts, particularly ballet. She worked backstage at performances, sketching the dancers at close quarters and capturing the gracefulness of a dancer's movement with just a few expressive lines.
Knight painted backstage during Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes seasons in London. She also took lessons at Tillers Dancing Academy in St Martin's Lane in order to draw the dancers there.
Here Knight captures the form and grace of Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. The most famous classical ballet dancer of her time, Pavlova made London her home in 1912. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | DACS Design and Artists Copyright Society | Subjects: | work Leisure Art and Design | Temporal: | 1919-1925 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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