Description
Signed and inscribed 'To my dear friend Peter - Laura Knight', chalk
Dimensions
29cm x 25cm (11.5in x 9.75in)
Footnote
Exhibited: Abbott and Holder, London
Note: Major Peter Casson was Deputy Assistant Adjutant - General of the British War Crimes Executive based at the Courthouse, Nuremberg who first met Laura Knight at Nuremberg. He was responsible together with Captain Marsh and Captain Watts-Russell for the care, pass and travel arrangements of the artist whilst performing her commission on the Trials in 1946.
They became firm friends for the rest of her life to such an extent that he shared with four others in the residuary assets of her Estate on her death and Casson read the Lesson at her memorial service.
After the War, Peter Casson became a roving ambassador for the United Nations.
In October 1966 he was appointed Commissioner General to the UN Pavilion at Montreal World Fair. Peter Casson organised the luncheon at Overtons Restaurant 3 St James London in celebration of her 1965 retrospective exhibition.