Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

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Property from an Esteemed British Collection

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

Family Group

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed British Collection

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

1887 - 1976

Family Group


signed L.S. LOWRY and dated 1936 (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 46.5 by 39cm.; 18¼ by 15¼in.

framed: 63 by 55cm.; 24¾ by 21½in.

Executed in 1936.

Dr. A.W. Laing

Sale, Sotheby's London, 8 July 1970, lot 58

Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner, 1972

Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry, London, 1975, illustrated pl. 13 (as The Family)

Michael Howard, Lowry: A Visionary Artist, Lowry Press, Salford, 2000, pp. 144-5, illustrated (as Short Time, Family Discord also known as Interior

Andras Kalman, Andrew Lambirth, L. S. Lowry Conversation Pieces, Chaucer Press, 2003, pp. 64-5, illustrated (as Family Group)

Tom Rosenthal, L. S. Lowry, The Art and The Artist, Unicorn Press, Lewes, 2010, pp. 148-9, illustrated

London, Alex. Reid and Lefevre Ltd., Paintings of the Midlands by L.S. Lowry, February 1939, no. 24

Salford, Festival of Britain, City Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of L.S. Lowry, 21 July - 19 August 1951, no. 44

Manchester, City Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry Retrospective Exhibition, 3 June - 12 July 1959, no. 28

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, The Works of L.S. Lowry, 15 September - 14 October 1962, no. 23

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, British Paintings, 8 December 1971 - 15 January 1972, no. 20, illustrated in the exh. cat.

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, L.S. Lowry, A Selection of 36 Paintings, 4 November - 6 December 1975, no. 6, illustrated in the exh. cat.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, L.S. Lowry R.A., 1887-1976, 4 September - 14 November 1976, no. 114

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 32 Major Works by L.S. Lowry (1887-1976), March - April 1982, no. 2

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, L.S. Lowry, A Centenary Tribute, 29 October - 28 November 1987, no. 3, illustrated in the exh. cat.

Middlesborough, Cleveland Art Gallery, Lowry, 5 December 1987 - 17 January 1988, no. 98, with tour to Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and London, Barbican Art Gallery

London, Hayward Gallery, Innocence and Experience, 1991 - 1992, no. 12, details untraced

Salford, The Lowry, Conversation Pieces, 5 July - 5 October 2003, unnumbered