Street in Clitheroe

Lowry painted the present view several times, intrigued as he often was by an ordinary and unassuming street, the steep rise over the brow of the hill and the spacial awareness created by the tiny figures against the expanse of the foreground, emphasising the curious low vantage point. Street scene, Clitheroe, 1963, was sold in these Rooms on 5 March 1999, lot 182 (private collection) with the viewpoint set perhaps a few yards higher up the same hill. A pencil drawing entitled In Clitheroe, circa 1930, comprising several sketches of a street and inscribed with copious colour notes by the artist is in the collection of the City of Salford (see J. Sandling and M. Leber, L.S. Lowry, Oxford, 1987, p. 129).