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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)

Lot 189
20.10.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 189 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)

The Lake

signed and dated 'L S Lowry 1928' (lower right)

oil on board

7 1/2 x 8 in. (19 x 20.3 cm.)

Painted in 1928.





Provenance

Purchased at the 1968 exhibition by Dr Lewson.

with Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Loneliness of L.S. Lowry, London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 1968, n.p., no. 3, pl. XVII.



Exhibited

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, The Loneliness of L.S. Lowry, November 1968, no. 3.



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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.



Post lot text

Painted in 1928, The Lake is an early example of an unusual aspect of L.S. Lowry’s oeuvre: his emotional response to his own solitude. This facet of Lowry’s life does not appear in his most characteristic scenes of crowds scurrying between factories and into football stadiums. However, living alone for some thirty years in his life, seclusion was an experience that Lowry was very familiar with. His paintings of empty roads, the desolate northern sea, and, in this case, the brooding expanse of a lake, communicate the artist’s own emotional isolation. The lake’s eerie chromatic coolness, the painting’s refined texture, and the haunting shoreline that rises above the water, work together to create an altogether contemplative atmosphere.
Artist:Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976)
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