Modern & Post-War British Art

Modern & Post-War British Art

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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. | MAN LOOKING AT SOMETHING

Auction Closed

November 20, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A.

1887- 1976

MAN LOOKING AT SOMETHING


signed and indistinctly dated 1962

oil on canvas

31 by 20.5cm.; 12¼ by 8in.

Private Collection

Their sale, Christie's London, 19th July 1968, lot 166 (probably)

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the present owner before the 1990s

'They are ghostly figures which tenant these courts and laneways which seem to me so beautiful, they are symbols of my mood, they are myself' (L.S. Lowry, quoted in Michael Howard, Lowry: A Visionary Artist, Lowry Press, Manchester, 2000, p.13).