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This was the first picture that Lawrence Ives purchased from Lowry. Ives had become a budding art collector in his early teens and had bought a lithograph by Lowry for his parents in about 1951. When he and his wife moved to The Lilacs in Mottram-in-Longdendale in the summer of 1959 he was unaware that the artist lived at The Elms, just half a mile away.
Lawrence Ives recalls how a conversation with an old local named Jim Beesley led to his first meeting with Lowry,
"'There is a chap in the village who is a right take on.' (It was explained to me that to be a 'take-on' you had to pretend to do something that you can't). I expressed interest. 'This chap does a bit of drawing and painting but they are not up to much. He passes under the name of Lowry.'
The sun shone, angels flew around the house, and joy reigned all around. That evening my wife set off to The Elms as the advance guard. She left at about 8.30 pm. and came back after midnight.
'Incredible, fascinating, a lovely man' she said, 'It is your turn tonight.'
So I went and thus began a friendship that lasted until Lowry died."
"We talked for about three hours - in years to come we always talked into the night. As I was leaving he said he wanted to give me a painting. I told him I could not accept a gift.
'If you won't take it then what can you pay me, Sir?' Our total income was £500 a year from two post-graduate research scholarships I held at Manchester University. 'Pay me what you can...'
And so The Ives Collection was born."
Lawrence Ives recalls how a conversation with an old local named Jim Beesley led to his first meeting with Lowry,
"'There is a chap in the village who is a right take on.' (It was explained to me that to be a 'take-on' you had to pretend to do something that you can't). I expressed interest. 'This chap does a bit of drawing and painting but they are not up to much. He passes under the name of Lowry.'
The sun shone, angels flew around the house, and joy reigned all around. That evening my wife set off to The Elms as the advance guard. She left at about 8.30 pm. and came back after midnight.
'Incredible, fascinating, a lovely man' she said, 'It is your turn tonight.'
So I went and thus began a friendship that lasted until Lowry died."
"We talked for about three hours - in years to come we always talked into the night. As I was leaving he said he wanted to give me a painting. I told him I could not accept a gift.
'If you won't take it then what can you pay me, Sir?' Our total income was £500 a year from two post-graduate research scholarships I held at Manchester University. 'Pay me what you can...'
And so The Ives Collection was born."