
Property of a Distinguished British Collection
The Steps
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.
1887 - 1976
The Steps
signed L.S. Lowry and dated 1944 (lower left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 41 by 50 cm. 16 by 19¾ in.
framed: 62 by 70.5 cm. 24½ by 27½ in.
Executed in 1944.
The Artist, from whom acquired by The Lefevre Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by Private Collection, 1945
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1990, lot 136, where acquired by Private Collection, U.K.
Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, November 1999
London, The Lefevre Gallery, Paintings by L.S. Lowry, February - March 1945, no. 6
Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry, Oils and Watercolours, Jupiter Books, London, 1977, illustrated pl. 121
Michael Leber and Judith Sandling, L. S. Lowry, Phaidon Press, London, 2010, illustrated p. 101
Tom Rosenthal, L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist, Unicorn Press, Norwich, 2010, illustrated p. 171
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