Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)

The Floating Bridge, Southampton

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
The Floating Bridge, Southampton
signed and dated 'L S LOWRY 1956' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 25 in. (55.9 x 64.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
The Heinz and Anna Kroch Foundation; their sale; Christie's, 9 March 1984, lot 209, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, March-April 1956, no.19.
Kendal, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry, July-September 1979 (no catalogue).

Lot Essay

This work depicts passengers disembarking from the Woolston Ferry which operated across the River Itchen until the mid 1970s. A similar painting in which the ferry nears land is in the collection of Southampton Art Gallery. Lowry was fascinated by the number of people who were crammed onto the ferry.
(see M. Leber and J. Sandling, L.S. Lowry, Salford Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1987, p.141).

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