Lot #590: L. S. LOWRY [imputée] - Street Scene with Figures - Pencil drawing on paper

 

Artist: L. S. Lowry [imputée] (English, 1887-1976).
Title: "Street Scene with Figures".
Medium: Pencil drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1950.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in. (273 x 198 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,500/3,000
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower left. Cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition; remnants of hinging tape and a few spots verso, not visible recto; edge shading upper and left edges.
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.”. [30150-2-1600-NA]