Lot #2529: L. S. LOWRY - Annoyed Man - Oil and pencil on canvas

   

Artist: L. S. Lowry (English, 1887 - 1976).
Title: "Annoyed Man".
Medium: Oil and pencil on canvas.
Date: Composed 1965.
Dimensions: Frame size: 14 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (365 x 210 mm). Image size: 12 1/4 x 6 in. (311 x 152 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed upper right. Fine condition; painted on a Winsor & Newton stretched canvas; framed. Comment(s): A very similar painting in style, technique, and size to our example (“Man with Bowler Hat”) sold for £84,100 ($128,630) at Christie’s London, King Street, November 26, 2015, lot #112. Another (“Standing Girl in High Heels”) sold for £40,000 ($52,500) at Christie’s London, King Street, June 18, 2019, lot #154. Many of Lowry’s paintings and drawings depict people in Pendlebury, where he lived and worked for over 40 years, and Salford and its surrounding areas. On 26 June 2013 a major retrospective on his work opened at the Tate Britain in London, his first at the Tate. Shelley Rohde has written of Lowry’s one person works: “Now he had a new obsession: his single figures ... who had lived for so long in the shadow of the mills emerged at last from their background to stand alone, as he stood alone. If he saw them as odd, it was because he felt himself to be odd; if he saw them as different, it was because he felt himself to be different” Image copyright © The Estate of L.S. Lowry/DACS. [29990-10-40000]