Location: Grimaldi, Italy
Subject: Streetscape
Medium: Watercolour
Date: 1920s
Signature: Knighton-Hammond
Dimensions: 62 cm x 48 cm
K-H's instinctive feeling for light, colour and tone is demonstrated in this luminous watercolour of a street in Grimaldi, a town close to the Franco/Italian border. The scene has freshness and immediacy, the finely depicted building bathed in dappled sunlight and the passing figures painted at speed to create a sense of movement.
The artist has maximised the qualities of watercolour to convey light and space in an impressionistic style.