Lot Essay
'I'm attracted to decay, I suppose; in a way to ugliness too. A derelict house gets me' (L.S. Lowry, in an interview with Edwin Mullins, Sunday Telegraph, 20 November 1966).
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Study for a Ruin (Flint Castle)
Details
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Study for a Ruin (Flint Castle)
signed and dated 'L S Lowry 1935' (lower right)
pencil
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Study for a Ruin (Flint Castle)
signed and dated 'L S Lowry 1935' (lower right)
pencil
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Exhibited
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, The Estate of L.S. Lowry, November 2012 - January 2013, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, Unseen Lowry: Paintings and Drawings from L.S. Lowry's Home, June - September 2013, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan from the estate, 2013-2015.
Salford, The Lowry, Unseen Lowry: Paintings and Drawings from L.S. Lowry's Home, June - September 2013, not numbered.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan from the estate, 2013-2015.
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.
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