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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
Farm Building, Lytham
signed with initials and dated 'LSL. 1918' (lower right)
pencil and pastel on buff paper
5 x 634 in. (12.7 x 17.1 cm.)
Executed in 1918.
Provenance
Monty Bloom, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 2003, lot 113, part lot, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Southport, Atkinson Art Gallery, The Bloom Collection, 1967, as 'Lytham Landscape', catalogue not traced.
Sunderland, Arts Council of Great Britain, City Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry RA Retrospective Exhibition, August - September 1966, no. 119: this exhibition travelled to Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, September - October 1966; Bristol, City Art Gallery, October - November 1966 and London, Tate Gallery, November 1966 - January 1967.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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The farm buildings in this early rural landscape are similar to those in drawings of Arden's Farm in Swinton, outside Manchester.
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