Lytham Promenade

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Lytham Promenade
signed and dated 'L S Lowry 1944.' (lower right)
pencil
11¾ x 15¾ in. (29.9 x 40 cm.)

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Leo Solomon, principle of the Rochdale School of Art.

Literature

M. Levy, The Drawings of L.S. Lowry: Public and Private, London, 1976, no. 131, illustrated, as Beach Scene.

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Lot Essay

Lowry spent many childhood holidays with his parents at Lytham, a resort on the Lancashire coast, and had happy memories of these days. He frequently returned to paint and draw beach scenes and seascapes. Lytham St Anne's and Rhyl had developed in the late nineteenth century specially to cater for industrial workers who could afford a temporary escape from their daily drudgery, the beaches therefore are populated with Lowry's regular cast of characters, transposed from the city streets to the seashore (see M. Howard, Lowry A Visionary Artist, Salford, 2000, p. 229).

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