Newtown Pit

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Newtown Pit
signed 'L S LOWRY' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 x 16 in. (25.4 x 40.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1920.

Provenance

Gerald B. Cotton.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 June 1980, lot 212, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Bury, County Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry R.A., June - July 1962, no. 18.
Accrington, Haworth Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by L.S. Lowry, R.A,, September, 1971, no. 4.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Coal: British Mining in Art 1680-1980, 1982, no. 12.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Painted soon after the after the artist moved to Pendlebury, this is one of the few paintings of a colliery and one of the first examples of his interest in industry, with evidence of his individual style already developing. The colliery has been demolished.

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