Industrial Scene near Oldham

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Industrial Scene near Oldham
signed 'LS Lowry' (lower left) and dated '1962' (lower right)
pencil
13 x 9 5/8 in. (33 x 24.5 cm.)
To be sold with a letter from the original owner.

Provenance

Acquired direct from the artist by the present owner's stepmother in 1962.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

Please note that the present work is further signed, dated and inscribed with the title 'Industrial Scene/near Oldham/L S Lowry 1962' (on the reverse)

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Lot Essay

In a letter to be sold with Industrial Scene near Oldham, the present owner's stepmother, Barbara Adams, wrote, 'I bought this drawing from L.S. Lowry in 1962 over a private lunch in a small restaurant in Jermyn Street. The lunch had been arranged by Charles Anthony Adams, my ex-husband, who first met and published L.S. Lowry when working for the publisher Lowry, Adams and Mackie. The dominant central mill-chimney was inserted at the lunch when L.S. Lowry learned that I came from the Lancashire mill town of Oldham.

The drawing has been in my possession ever since. I now wish to pass it to Richard Adams, eldest child of my ex-husband'.

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