PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIR KEITH AND LADY SHOWERING
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)

Sunday Afternoon

Price realised GBP 6,290,000
Estimate
GBP 4,000,000 – GBP 6,000,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)

Sunday Afternoon

Price realised GBP 6,290,000
Price realised GBP 6,290,000
Details
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
Lowry, L.S.
Sunday Afternoon
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1957' (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 x 60 in. (114.3 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1957.
Provenance
J.K. Foy, London.
His sale; Christie's, London, 10 March 1967, lot 80, where purchased by the present owners.
Literature
T.G. Rosenthal, L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist, Norwich, 2010, p. 242.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, October 1958, no. 1.
Sunderland, Arts Council of Great Britain, Sunderland Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry, R.A.: Retrospective Exhibition, August - September 1966, no. 82: 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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