Lot Essay
'I would stand for hours on one spot ... and scores of little kids who hadn't had a wash for weeks would come and stand round me' (L.S. Lowry quoted in A. Andrews, The Life of L.S. Lowry, London, 1977).
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Children running in front of a fence
Details
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Children running in front of a fence
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1927' (lower right)
pencil
10 3/8 x 14 ¼ in. (26.2 x 36 cm.)
Children running in front of a fence
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1927' (lower right)
pencil
10 3/8 x 14 ¼ in. (26.2 x 36 cm.)
Exhibited
Salford, Museum and Art Gallery, on long term loan from the estate until 2000.
Salford, The Lowry, Lowry's People, April - September 2000, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, Lowry's Movement, July - August 2001, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan to the estate, 2000-2015.
Salford, The Lowry, Lowry's People, April - September 2000, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, Lowry's Movement, July - August 2001, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan to the estate, 2000-2015.
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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