Price Realized
£2,617,250 ($4,161,428)
16th November, 2011
The Lord Forte Collection of Works by L.S. Lowry
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Industrial Landscape
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1944' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)
Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London.
Mrs C.B. Notley; Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1971, lot 96, where purchased by the present owner.
LSLowry died aged 88 in 1976 just months before a retrospective exhibition of his paintings opened at the Royal Academy. It broke all attendance records for a twentieth century artist. Critical opinion about Lowry remains divided to this day. Salford Museum & Art Gallery began collecting the artist's work in 1936 and gradually built up the collection which is now at the heart of the award-winning building bearing the artist's name. Celebrating his art and transforming the cityscape again. A small quantity of paintings by the artist l.s. lowry were published as signed limited edition prints. Some of the most well known being, 'Going to the match', Man lying on a wall, Huddersfield, Deal, ferry boats, three cats Alstow, Berwick-on-Tweed, peel park, The two brothers, View of a town, Street scene.
