The original Conversation Piece is a drawing executed in biro (ballpoint pen).
Lowry Signed Prints
Lowry Signed Prints
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Style: It is characteristic of Lowry’s later, more minimalist style, focusing on the interaction between figures rather than his earlier dense industrial landscapes.
Subject Matter: Lowry often used the term "conversation piece" to describe works that captured small, intimate human interactions,
such as his 1974 print Family Discussion, which he described as "a man trying to convince his mother about something".
Market Context: Original Lowry drawings of this nature are highly sought after by collectors, with similar small-scale works often valued in the tens of thousands of pounds.
Conversation Piece
Conversation Piece
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1963' (lower right)
ball-point pen on paper laid card
13.7 x 18.2 cm. (5 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Sold for £15,600 inc. vat
PROVENANCE:
Gifted by the artist to Frank Mullineux in the 1960s or early 1970s
Thence by family descent to 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.
Visit the the studio in Nottinghamshire, the largest collection of LS Lowry artist signed, limited edition prints in the UK.
David Shepherd prints and paintings Sir William Russell Flint
