The Broken Shop Window at Cleator Moor

Name: LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
Brand: The Broken Shop Window at Cleator Moor
Price: 40000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 50,000

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GBP 35,000 - GBP 55,000

Closed: 2 Jul 2020

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

The Broken Shop Window at Cleator Moor

Price Realised GBP 50,000

Closed: 2 Jul 2020

Price Realised GBP 50,000

Closed: 2 Jul 2020

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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
The Broken Shop Window at Cleator Moor
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1950' (lower left)
pencil and pastel on blue paper
10³⁄₄ x 14³⁄₄ in. (27.3 x 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1950.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 1990, lot 301, where purchased by the present owner's father.

Salford, The Lowry, Lowry's Travels, January 2003, not numbered.

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Lot Essay

Lowry became a regular visitor to Cleator Moor, Cumbria, after his close friend, Geoffrey Bennett (1902-1991) had moved there with his wife, Alice, and son, also Geoffrey, to run its National Westminster Bank branch. Lowry sketched and drew with Geoffrey Bennett, a keen amateur artist, and they enjoyed making caricatures to amuse the younger Geoffrey. In fact, Lowry used some of young Geoffrey's pastels to produce a series of vivid drawings of shops and landmarks in the town. ( Private Collection, on loan to The Lowry, sold in these Rooms, 24 May 2012, lot 228, £145,250), previously in the collection of Reverend Geoffrey Bennett, was also executed in pastel on blue paper (see note to lot 3).

The present work was executed after a young resident of Cleator Moor had an accident on his bicycle outside the shop front which resulted in a broken window. Lowry was staying opposite and probably witnessed the accident, or its aftermath, and this became a fitting subject for a drawing.
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