Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Property of a Lady and Gentleman
Rebuilding of Rylands, Manchester
Auction Closed
November 21, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
L. S. Lowry
1887 - 1976
Rebuilding of Rylands, Manchester
signed L.S.L. and dated 1929 (lower right)
pencil and crayon on paper
unframed (window): 28 by 38.5cm.; 11 by 15¼in.
framed: 49 by 60cm.; 19¼ by 24in.
Executed in 1929.
Halcyon Gallery, Birmingham
Private Collection, U.K.
MacConnal- Mason, London
Sale, Bonhams London, 18 November 2009, lot 39
'Desolation in Industry: Theme of Wearside Art Exhibition', Sunderland Echo, 23 September 1942 (exhibition review)
'LS Lowry: A Manchester Exhibition', The Guardian, 26 October 1948 (exhibition review)
Mervyn Levy (ed.), Drawings of L. S. Lowry, Cory, Adams & Mackay, London, 1963, illustrated pl. 35
Mervyn Levy (ed.), Drawings of L. S. Lowry, Jupiter Books Ltd, London, 1973, unpaginated, illustrated no. 35
T. J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, Tate Publishing, London, 2013, pp. 102 -105, illustrated. p102, fig.47
London, Royal Society of British Artists, Winter 1935, no. 469 (as Rebuilding at Rylands)
Salford, Salford Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Laurence S Lowry, RBA, 1 - 31 October 1941, no. 50
Sunderland, Sunderland Art Gallery, Industrial Scenes by Laurence S Lowry, RBA, 21 September - 13 October 1942, no. 40
Manchester, Lefevre Gallery, Mid-day Studios, Paintings by LS Lowry, 26 October - 20 November 1948, no. 39 (as Rebuilding at Rylands, possibly)
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, LS Lowry: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, 15 September - 14 October 1962, no. 140 (as Rylands Re-building, Piccadilly, Manchester)
London, Halcyon Gallery, Rembrandt and LS Lowry, 27 October - 5 November 2005