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SOLDWinifred Knights (1899-1947):
Paradise - Compositional Study, circa 1925
Framed (ref: 7610)
Grisaille over pencil
7 1/2 x 9 in. (19 x 22.8 cm)
See all works by Winifred Knights pencil allegory Garden landscape
Provenance: The Artist's family; Andrew McIntosh Patrick
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, Winifred Knights, Lund Humphries 2016
Exhibited: Winifred Knights, The Fine Art Society, 1995; no. 12 dExhibited: The Fine Art Society 2007 'The Andrew McIntosh Collection';Rome, The British School at Rome & London, The Fine Art Society, Winifred Knights, September 1995
Although Paradise was never realised as a full-size composition, its theme and setting would provide the basic outline for a later masterpiece, The Santissima Trinita.
