Lucien + Knight
This year I am determined to frame some of the many, many postcards + prints I have stored for months and for some years. Now and again I thumb through them and smile at the images. Some I have chosen as a memento from a place I have visited, others I just loved the image. But now I want to be able to smile at them daily! Not just when I remember to go through the stack that’s piled high getting dusty.
So first up…
A portrait by Dame Laura Knight, a 19th Century artist that MK Gallery are currently spotlighting with a major exhibition of her work, highly recommend. Some words about her here from the Tate Gallery website.
“ An English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists.”
“A Girl with a Kitten” is one of eight portraits that Lucian Freud made of his first wife, Kathleen Garman (1926–2011), between 1947 and 1951.
I've framed both in a Charcoal Black Frame, it's black but it has texture, a slight greyish brown vein to it, which softens it and so doesn't feel too start next to the relatively pastel tones of both prints.
I chose a creamy mountboard to border both postcards. Not a stark white, but soft and simple enough to bring the images to the fore, not distracting from the two figures.
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