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Lot Essay
Sold with two photographs of Lowry and a copy of the audio interview In Town Tonight, 20 June 1959.
Lowry was one of a number of artists who were commissioned by the Ministry of Works under Sir David Eccles to record the Coronation on 2 June 1953.
Lowry wrote to his friend and fellow artist David Carr describing the event: 'I did all right on the day last week. I fear I didn't get there as early as I ought to have done (six o'clock in the morning was the time they asked folk to be in their places and I would hate to tell you what time I did arrive). The weather was awful in the afternoon, not so terrible in the morning. I was perched in a stand in front of the Palace a very good view in fact it couldn't have been better. What I am going to paint I don't know. Some excellent incidents took place round about which fascinated me but not, I should imagine, what the Ministry of Works want, I am sorry to say.'
Lowry's finished painting The Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial, Coronation, 1953, is owned by the Government Art Collection.
Lowry was one of a number of artists who were commissioned by the Ministry of Works under Sir David Eccles to record the Coronation on 2 June 1953.
Lowry wrote to his friend and fellow artist David Carr describing the event: 'I did all right on the day last week. I fear I didn't get there as early as I ought to have done (six o'clock in the morning was the time they asked folk to be in their places and I would hate to tell you what time I did arrive). The weather was awful in the afternoon, not so terrible in the morning. I was perched in a stand in front of the Palace a very good view in fact it couldn't have been better. What I am going to paint I don't know. Some excellent incidents took place round about which fascinated me but not, I should imagine, what the Ministry of Works want, I am sorry to say.'
Lowry's finished painting The Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial, Coronation, 1953, is owned by the Government Art Collection.