An old street in Berwick-upon-Tweed

細節

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
An old street in Berwick-upon-Tweed
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1952' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm.)

來源

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's father in 1952 for £5,250.

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拍場告示

Please note that the present lot was purchased from Crane Kalman Gallery, London, on 23 December 1969, and not when stated in the catalogue entry.

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拍品專文

Lowry was a frequent visitor to Berwick-upon-Tweed, after an initial stay in 1935, and the town became a source of inspiration to him throughout the 1940s and 50s. The present work depicts a narrow street, populated by local children playing on the pavement, with a woman and a child walking down the road, followed by a dog. The street is reminiscent of that shown in a local postcard of Mill Lane (from the collection of Northumberland Archives Service), dated from around 1910, in which a millworker lifts a sack of flour from a ramp at a window of a mill. The same ramp is visible in the present work.
A view of Marygate, titled by the artist 'A Market Place, Berwick-upon-Tweed', from Cambridgeshire Schools' Art Collection, was sold in these Rooms on 21 May 2009 for £541,250.