The Beach at Roker
Price Realized
£301,250 ($474,770)
Estimate
£250,000 - £350,000 ($394,000 - $551,600)
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
The Beach at Roker
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1963' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Provenance
Purchased by the present owner at the 1964 exhibition.
Property from the Estate of Raymond Montague Burton
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, London, Lefevre Gallery, 1964, no. 8, illustrated, as 'The Beach at Rother'.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, June - July 1964, no. 8, as 'The Beach at Rother'.
LSLowry died aged 88 in 1976 just months before a retrospective exhibition of his paintings opened at the Royal Academy.
It broke all attendance records for a twentieth century artist.
Critical opinion about Lowry remains divided to this day.
Salford Museum & Art Gallery began collecting the artist's work in 1936 and gradually built up the
collection which is now at the heart of the award-winning building bearing the artist's name.
Celebrating his art and transforming the cityscape again.
A small quantity of paintings by the artist l.s. lowry were published as signed limited edition prints. Some of the most well known being, 'Going to the match',
Man lying on a wall, Huddersfield, Deal, ferry boats, three cats Alstow, Berwick-on-Tweed, peel park, The two brothers, View of a town, Street scene.