Lot 8
Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948)
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Literature:
“Louis Aston Knight, an American enamored of Beaumont le Roger”, Tourisme et Patrimoine/Beaumount Le Roger, n.d., unpaginated.
Note:
Louis Aston Knight is the son of artist Daniel Ridgway Knight and both men painted idyllic scenes of the French countryside. Louis Aston Knight moved to the United States in the early 1900s before returning to Paris to live with his wife. As his career progressed, Aston Knight began to favour scenes of cottages tucked along the streams of Normandy.
Aston Knight commented of his cottage works that he continued to paint and repaint these works not by habit or because of great success, “but because I am convinced that so far I have not managed to capture the great charm and beauty” of the landscape. This work demonstrates the artist’s exquisite renditions of water effects, for which he was known. Here, a river winds into the distance in a sun-filled scene with brilliant colours and confident brushwork.