A Narrow Street

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
A Narrow Street
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1962' (lower right)
oil on board
20 x 16 in. (51 x 40.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London, November 1962.
The Hon. John Siddeley; his sale, Christie's, 13 May 1966, lot 115.
Anon. sale; Christie's, 8 November 1990, lot 113, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Discussing the crowd scenes in his work, Lowry commented, 'All those people in my pictures, they are all alone. They have all got their private sorrows, their own absorption. But they can't contact one another. We are all of us alone - cut off. All my people are lonely. Crowds are the most lonely thing of all. Everyone is a stranger to everyone else. You have only got to look at them to see that' (see J. Spalding, Lowry, London, 1987, p. 51).

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