Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
Auction Closed
November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A.
1887- 1976
MAN LOOKING AT SOMETHING
signed and indistinctly dated 1962
oil on canvas
31 by 20.5cm.; 12¼ by 8in.
Private Collection
Their sale, Christie's London, 19th July 1968, lot 166 (probably)
Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the present owner before the 1990s
'They are ghostly figures which tenant these courts and laneways which seem to me so beautiful, they are symbols of my mood, they are myself' (L.S. Lowry, quoted in Michael Howard, Lowry: A Visionary Artist, Lowry Press, Manchester, 2000, p.13).