Lot #132: L. S. LOWRY [imputée] - Couple Sitting on a Bench - Pencil drawing

 

Artist: L. S. Lowry [imputée] (English, 1887-1976).
Title: "Couple Sitting on a Bench".
Medium: Pencil drawing.
Date: Composed 1958.
Dimensions: Overall size: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. (146 x 238 mm). Image size: 4 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (108 x 225 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,500
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,000/3,000
Lot Note(s): Signed with the initials, lower right. Cream wove lightweight paper. Very good condition; would be very good to fine save for a small ballpoint pen signature on the upper right margin, verso – when the drawing is laid on a flat surface, such as a mat board, the signature does not telegraph through to the recto; annotated “1958” in pencil on verso. Provenance: Private collection, London, England.
Comment(s): Lowry’s figural compositions are generally the most highly sought after works of his oeuvre. Laurence Stephen Lowry RA was born in Stretford, Lancashire. Many of his 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. Mervyn Levy has observed “Few British painters have provided in their drawings so complete and revealing a conspectus of their aesthetic, intellectual, and intuitive objectives, as L.S. Lowry.”. [30010-1-1500-NA]