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Property of a Distinguished British Collection

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

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