Rounders

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Rounders
signed and dated 'L.S.LOWRY 1939' (lower right)
oil on panel
15 1/8 x 20 in. (38.3 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery.
with Leicester Galleries, London, where purchased by Dr. Llewellyn Wyn Griffiths, C.B.E.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1973, lot 143.

Exhibited

Sunderland, Art Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, L.S. Lowry, August - September 1966, no. 28; this exhibition toured to Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, September - October 1966; Bristol, City Art Gallery, October - November 1966 and London, Tate Gallery, November 1966 - January 1967.
London, Richard Green, L.S. Lowry A Collector's Choice, May 2004, no. 5.

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Lot Essay

Lowry frequently included children in his paintings and in the present work depicts a game of rounders against an industrial landscape in the distance. The spectators, participants and passers-by merge together, the games field simply created in a space between the buildings, a winding path and the empty carts tipped up in the backdrop. The same landscape with the carts can be seen in Carts on Wasteland, lot 89 in this sale.

A pencil study of the same title, in the collection of Professor Carel Weight, dated 1925, was based on a scene at the Girl Guides' Camp at Gee Cross, near Hyde in Cheshire.

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