Location: Courmayeur, Italy
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Watercolour
Date: 1923
Signature: Knighton Hammond
Dimensions: 35 cm x 45 cm
Courmayeur is an Alpine resort at the foot of Mont Blanc in northwest Italy. The dramatic sky is allowing shafts of light to illuminate the iconic snow-covered mountain. This lighting effect almost appears that the mountain is admitting light rather than just reflecting it. Knighton-Hammond uses the most unlikely colours in the mid-foreground but to very good, atmospheric affect.