Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks
signed and dated 'L.S.LOWRY 1947' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'L.S.LOWRY CRANES AND SHIPS GLASGOW DOCKS' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
18¼ x 22¼ in. (46.4 x 56.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London, 1953.
Fred Uhlman; his sale; Sotheby's, 17 March 1965, lot 179.

Exhibited

London, Richard Green, L.S. Lowry A Collector's Choice, May 2004, no. 27.

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Lot Essay

Lowry visited Scotland in 1946 and 1947 and executed a series of drawings of Prince's Dock (see lot 127) which he later worked into a group of oil paintings.

The heavy machinery and ships bows were a new landscape which inspired him as much as the mills and factories, and provided a backdrop to his paintings which he peopled with the same small figures busily occupied with their daily lives.

The present work was the first painting by the artist to sell for £1,000 when it was first sold at auction in 1965.

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