Fishing Village, Londondery

"Few British painters have provided in their drawings so complete and revealing a conspectus of their aesthetic, intellectual and intuitive objectives, as L.S. Lowry. His drawings and for the most part they intended to be complete in themselves, need no transciption through the medium of oil paint or the quality of colour... He is not a draughtsman in the classical, Renaissance sense: his employment of line is always that of a quality of itself, rather tahn a vehicle through which form is described, and by which it is enclosed." (M Levy, Drawings of L.S. Lowry, London, 1963, p. 7)