Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
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Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)

Figures in the street

Details
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Figures in the street
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1969' (lower right)
pencil and felt-tipped pen
16 ¼ x 11 ¼ in. (41 x 28.3 cm.)
Exhibited
Salford, The Lowry, Unseen Lowry: Painting 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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Lot Essay

'I wanted to paint myself into what absorbed me ... Natural figures would have broken the spell of it, so I made my figures half unreal. Some critics have said that I turned my figures into puppets, as if my aim were to hint at the hard economic necessities that drove them. To say the truth, I was not thinking very much about the people. I did not care for them the way a social reformer does. They are part of the private beauty that haunted me. I loved them and the houses in the same way: as part of a vision'

(L.S. Lowry quoted in M. Howard, Lowry A Visionary Artist, Salford, 2000, p. 123)

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