Lot Essay
Lawrence Ives always showed a large photograph of this accomplished drawing as an example of the artist's academic skill to visitors who called Lowry 'The Matchstick Man'.
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Head of a woman
Details
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Head of a woman
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1918' (lower right)
pencil
16½ x 13 in. (42 x 33 cm.)
Head of a woman
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1918' (lower right)
pencil
16½ x 13 in. (42 x 33 cm.)
Provenance
with Lancaster Galleries, Manchester.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1982, lot 283, where purchased by the present owner.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1982, lot 283, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
L.S. Lowry The Centenary Exhibition, Salford Art Gallery in association with The South Bank Board, 1987, no. 39, fig. 1 (not exhibited).
Exhibited
Stalybridge, Astley Cheetham Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry, November-December 1983, no. 47.
Special notice
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