Artist: L. S. Lowry (English, 1887 - 1976). Title: "Street Scene with Factories". Medium: Pencil drawing on paper. Date: Composed 1958. Dimensions: Overall size: 9 3/16 x 11 1/8 in. (233 x 283 mm). Lot Note(s): Hand-signed with the initials, lower left. Drawn on cream wove paper. Good condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet. Comment(s): 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.” Image copyright © The Estate of L.S. Lowry/DACS. [30443-1-3000] |