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

Lot 14
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ID 922587
Lot 14 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)

The Railway Platform

signed and dated 'LS LOWRY 1953' (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm.)

Painted in 1953.





Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.

with Richard Green, London, where purchased by a private collector.

Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 November 2011, lot 19, where purchased by the previous owner.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 2015, lot 5, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., London, Lefevre Gallery, 1976, pp. 6, 25, no. 15, illustrated.

M. Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry: Oils and Watercolours, London, 1978, pl. 59.

D. McLean, L.S. Lowry, London, 1978, p. 14, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Modern British Paintings, London, Richard Green, 1984, pp. 68-69, no. 38, illustrated.

T.G. Rosenthal, L.S. Lowry: The Art and The Artist, Norwich, 2010, p. 179, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, October 1953, no. 20.

Sunderland, Arts Council of Great Britain, Sunderland Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry, R.A.: Retrospective Exhibition, August - September 1966, no. 72: this exhibition travelled to Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, September - October 1966; Bristol, City Art Gallery, October - November 1966; and London, Tate Gallery, November 1966 - January 1967.

London, Lefevre Gallery, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., May - July 1976, no. 15.

London, Royal Academy, L.S. Lowry, R.A., September - November 1976, no. 201.

London, Richard Green, Modern British Paintings, May 1984, no. 38.

Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan, 2016-2022.



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Artist:Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
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