L.S. Lowry



lowry fun at the fair Daisy Nook original painting

Price Realized
£3,401,250 ($5,360,370)

Estimate
£1,500,000 - £2,000,000 ($2,385,000 - $3,180,000)

The Lord Forte Collection of Works by L.S. Lowry
16 November 2011

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Fun Fair at Daisy Nook
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1953' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.5 cm.)

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 March 1976, lot 90.
with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in October 1977.

Literature
Exhibition catalogue, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., London, Lefevre Gallery, 1976, no. 21, illustrated.

Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., May - July 1976, no. 21.

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.
We hope that you will browse and enjoy Paintings and signed prints by wildlife artist David Shepherd,
Also the work of William Russell Flint whose paintings and signed prints are highly revered.
Famous for his portraits of Cecilia, Flint's greastest works illustrate the architecture and landscape throughout rural France
The work of Mr L.S. Lowry has become of great artistic and financial importance of recent years.
A selection of his prints and paintings can be viewed here
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