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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
Market Square, Ebbw Vale
signed, inscribed and dated 'L S Lowry Ebbw Vale/23 June 1959' (upper left), dedicated 'To Monty Bloom.' (upper right), with inscription 'The House where I was born. Monty Bloom' (on tape attached to the backboard)
pencil on paper
1034 x 14 in. (27.3 x 35.5 cm.)
Executed in 1959.
Provenance
Monty Bloom, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 2005, lot 124, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Lowry in Wales, October - December 2002, no. 42.
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 present work depicts the house in which Monty Bloom was born in Ebbw Vale, South Wales. For more information on Monty Bloom, see lot 14 in this sale.
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