Pick of the week
Laura Knight's reputation largely rested on theatre, circus and gypsy subjects before and after the, which she observed closely from the BBC box above the defendants' bench. In the painting, the courtroom walls dissolve to show the shattered city beyond. On December 7, two chalk-and-watercolour working drawings () were offered at Woolley & Wallis. One showed Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel and Dönitz, the other Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, von Papen, Seyss-Inquart Neurath and Fritsche. They went to an anonymous bidder at £15,600 and £13,000 and have now been loaned to the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London NW8, which describes them as ‘highly relevant to the museum's heritage'.
