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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
The Lane
signed with initials and dated 'LSL 1926' (lower right)
pencil on paper
978 x 1378 in. (25 x 35.3 cm.)
Executed in 1926.
Provenance
with Stanhope Shelton, Suffolk, where purchased by the present owner in June 1978.
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.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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Lowry's earliest drawings are of rural subjects and he regularly walked around Clifton Moss and Swinton Moss, outside Manchester, and sketched the village lanes leading to farmhouses and buildings.
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Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot. You must pay us an extra amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay the royalty to the appropriate authority. Please see the Conditions of Sale for further information.

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