Brockhampton

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Brockhampton
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1930' (lower right)
pencil
7½ x 11 in. (19 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

A gift from the artist to A.E. (Ted) Frape.
Acquired by the present owner from the Estate of Mrs Frape, January 1994.

Literature

H.W. Timperley, A Cotswold Book, London, 1931, illustrated facing p. 94.
M. Levy, Drawings of L.S. Lowry, London, 1963, no. 38, illustrated.
T.G. Rosenthal, L.S. Lowry, The Art and the Artist, Norwich, 2010, p. 93, illustrated.

Exhibited

Bury, Art Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of LS Lowry, RA, June - July 1962, no. 50.
Salford, The Lowry, Lowry's Travels, January - July 2003: this exhibition travelled to Sunderland, Art Gallery, July - October 2003.
Salford, The Lowry, Double Vision, January - December 2005.

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.

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Lot Essay

Brockhampton is one of the original drawings which Lowry executed in 1930 for A Cotswold Book by Harold Temperley, as well as Near Belas Knap (lot 153). Lowry decided to keep many of the originals after publication and he gifted Brockhampton to A.E. (Ted) Frape, the curator of Salford City Art Gallery. There, it was loaned to the renowned Salford Lowry collection and was inherited by Frape’s widow upon his death.

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