HILARY KNIGHT (1926 ) A Moon Bed for Edna

Sale 2514 - Lot 271

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HILARY KNIGHT (1926-)

A Moon Bed for Edna.

Watercolor and mixed media collage on white wove paper. 11 1/4x11 5/8 inches, 28.5x29.6 cm. Signed in purple crayon, titled in silver paint and dated in black ink, lower right recto. 2017.

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Knight is the well-known illustrator of the Eloise series. In order to depict Dame Edna, he took inspiration from the cover of the LP for a 1930s operetta featuring the Hungarian-born soprano Gitta Alpár on a moon bed.