British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

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Property from a Distinguished Private British Collection

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

Going to the Match

Auction Closed

June 29, 02:19 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private British Collection


Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.

1887 - 1976

Going to the Match


signed L.S. LOWRY and dated 1928 (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 43 by 53.5cm.; 17 by 21in.

framed: 70 by 80cm.; 27½ by 31½in.

Executed in 1928.


We are grateful to the The Estate of L. S. Lowry for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work

Private Collection, UK, from whom acquired by Crane Kalman Gallery, London in 1970
Acquired from the above by the present owners in May 1972
Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry, Jupiter Books, London, 1975, illustrated pl. 122
Beatrice Crespon-Halotier, Les Peintres Britanniques Dans Les Salons Parisiens des Origines Á 1939, L'Echelle de Jacob, Dijon, 2003, p. 344
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Metropolitan School of Art, 100th Anniversary Exhibition, 1929, no. 108 (as Hurrying to the Match)
Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, 1930, no. 1382  
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, A Tribute to L.S. Lowry, November 1966 - January 1967, no. 1, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.