Winifred Knights: The original cartoon for The Deluge, 1920 - on Art WW I

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Winifred Knights:
The original cartoon for The Deluge, 1920

Framed (ref: 214)
Pencil on tracing paper, 

Tags: Winifred Knights pencil men study women 1.Master Designs 1.Master Drawings 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 49 pictures Knights at Dulwich Modern British Art at Mercers' Hall No Mans Land Rediscovering Women Artist



Provenance: The Artist's Family


The Deluge was Winifred Knights’ winning entry for the Prix de Rome in 1920. On this full-size cartoon, the lines are heavily scored into the tracing paper so that the outline could be transferred onto the same size canvas – now one of the prize possessions of Tate Britain.

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, et al. Women Only Works on Paper. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p. 19.

Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.342.





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