L.S. Lowry

lowry country road near lytham original painting

Price Realized
£301,250 ($474,770)

Estimate
£150,000 - £250,000 ($238,500 - $397,500)

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Country Road, near Lytham
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1952' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)

Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in October 1977.

Literature
Exhibition catalogue, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., London, Lefevre Gallery, 1976, no. 14, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, L.S. Lowry, London, Royal Academy, 1976, p. 79, no. 195, as 'A Country Road', illustrated.
D. McLean, L.S. Lowry, London, 1978, p. 12, illustrated.

Everything came too late for Lowry, but the later years saw the British artist become a popular celebrity. Lowry also became preoccupied about whether his art would last. "Will I live", he asked over and over again, like the art of the Pre-Raphaelites Lowry collected and loved, "I painted from childhood to childhood". Lowry became an old man - often protesting to interviewers that he had "given up, packed it in".

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.

Visit the the studio in Nottinghamshire, the largest collection of LS Lowry artist signed, limited edition prints in the UK. Please take a moment to browse and enjoy the signed limited edition prints and paintings by wildlife artist David Shepherd,
Also the work of Sir William Russell Flint whose paintings and signed limited edition prints are in great demand.
Famous for his portraits of Cecilia, Flint's greastest works illustrate the architecture and landscape throughout rural France

The work of Mr L.S. Lowry has become of great artistic and financial importance of recent years. A selection of his signed prints and drawings can be viewed and bought here
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