Dressing Room No. 2

1923

Laura Knight

Associated Names
Laura Knight

Artist, British, 1877 - 1970

David Strang

Printer, British, 1887 - 1967

The image depicts three women from the waist up seated in a dressing room. The woman on the right is sitting with her body slightly angled to the left, looking into a mirror she holds in her right hand while her left hand is raised to her mouth. She has dark, neatly styled hair pulled back into an elegant updo with face-framing curls and wears a voluminous, light-colored dress with layered, ruffled fabric. To her left, a woman is sitting with her back to the viewer, her hand supporting her chin, as she faces slightly toward another woman on the far left who is applying something to her face. Both of these women also have their hair pulled back and are dressed in form-fitting tops or undergarments, with a draped garment hanging over the back of the chair. The background shows a wall with indistinct geometric shapes or artworks and a table or counter with indistinct objects placed on it. The setting suggests a backstage or preparation area, indicated by the round box on the countertop.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.3 x 22.4 cm (6 13/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.6 x 37.2 cm (10 1/16 x 14 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.98.137

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bolling/Withington 1993, no. 23


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Bolling, G. Fredric, and Valerie A. Withington. The Graphic Work of Laura Knight, including a Catalogue Raisonné of Her Prints. England: Scolar Press, 1993, p. 110, no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Laura Knight; lower edge in graphite: Dressing Room No. 2 aquatint Cat. no. 42 55 proofs in edition

Wikidata ID

Q76347170

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