Chris Beetles Gallery

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Flint Church

Charles Knight (1901-1990)

Price

£2,750

Signed

Signed on reverse

Medium

Watercolour on tinted paper

Dimensions

14 x 10 ¾ inches

Exhibited

Brighton Arts Club, 1928, No 110;
'More Than a Touch of Poetry. Landscapes by Charles Knight RWS ROI (1901-1990)', No 26:
Chris Beetles Ltd, London, June 1997, and Hove Museum and Art Gallery, July-August 1997;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 202

Flint Church
Charles Knight produced this watercolour of a quiet corner of a country churchyard during the late 1920s, while his emulation of John Sell Cotman was at its height. The crisp draughtsmanship, the simplification of form and the flat washes of a heightened palette of pure watercolour can all be traced to Cotman's own depictions of church interiors and exteriors, and especially those of the years 1807-10.

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