Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

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Property from a Distinguished British Collection

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

A Factory Town under Snow

Auction Closed

June 6, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished British Collection 

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

1887 - 1976

A Factory Town under Snow


signed L.S. LOWRY and dated 1942 (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 31 by 51cm.; 12¼ by 20in.

framed: 47 by 66.5cm.; 18½ by 26¼in.

Executed in 1942.

Lefevre Gallery, London

Sale, Christie's London, 13 June 1986, lot 379

Crane Kalman, London, October 1994, where acquired by the present owner

Michael Howard, Lowry, A Visionary Artist, Lowry Press, Salford, 2000, p.92 (as Snow in Manchester and incorrectly dated 1946)

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, A Selection of Masterpieces, June - August 1994