The Red House

Details

Harold Riley (b. 1934)
The Red House
signed 'Riley' (lower right)
oil on canvas
7 x 5 in. (17.7 x 12.7 cm.)

Provenance

The artist, and by descent.

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.

Lot Essay

'This small oil depicts a red house painted in scarlet vermillion which was Lowry's favourite colour. It stood in the district of Seedley in Salford. Lowry and I both painted it and on the occasion of our last visit, he looked at my picture and said "Compositionally, it needs something there" and pointed to the bottom right hand corner. He then flicked in the two figures and the dog and said, "I never have problems with composition, Sir, I simply put it in the middle"'
(Private correspondence with Dr Harold Riley, October 2014).

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