ID 1174998
Lot 17 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Early Morning
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1954' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1954.
Provenance
with Leicester Galleries, London, where purchased by Penguin Books in 1958.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1998, lot 73.
with Henry Donn Galleries, Manchester, where purchased by the previous owners.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 2014, lot 22, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
R. Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, Harmondsworth, 1957, illustrated on the cover.
Exhibition catalogue, L.S. Lowry, London, Richard Green Gallery, 2000, n.p., no. 3, illustrated.
J. Sandling and M. Leber, Lowry's City: A Painter and His Locale, Salford, 2000, p. 58, illustrated,
T.J. Clark and A.M. Wagner (eds.), exhibition catalogue, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, London, Tate Britain, 2013, p. 218, exhibition not numbered, fig. 109.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, March - April 1956, no. 24.
London, Richard Green Gallery, L.S. Lowry, April 2000, no. 3.
London, Tate Britain, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, June - October 2013, exhibition not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan 2000 - 2014.
| Artist: | Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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