LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976), Farm Building, Lytham

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 6³⁄₄ in. (12.7 x 17.1 cm.)
Executed in 1918.

Monty Bloom, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 2003, lot 113, part lot, where purchased by the present owner.

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.

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Lot Essay

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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