Pendlebury Bridge

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Pendlebury Bridge
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1919' (lower left)
oil on artist's board
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.7 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Sharman, Croydon.
G.R. Kennerley.
Mr A.D. Fisher.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 November 2001, lot 102.

Exhibited

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry An Exhibition to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Liverpool Trades Council, April - June 1973, no. 8.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Lowry moved to 117 Station Road, Pendlebury in 1909. This transition was to prove instrumental in consolidating Lowry's vision. 'Pendlebury - one of the most industrial villages in the countryside midway between Manchester and Bolton. At first I detested it. And then, after a few years, I got pretty interested in it and began to walk about. Vaguely in my mind, I suppose, pictures were forming, and then for about thirty-odd years after that I did nothing but industrial pictures ... All my material was on my doorstep' (A. Andrews, The Life of L.S. Lowry, London, 1977, p. 44).

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