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Lowry both liked and understood these areas, he had no need to travel abroad, journeying from one side of the city to the other gave him all the depth he required for his paintings. One of his first reviewers, Bernard Taylor, commented in 1921. His portrait of Lancashire is more grimly like that of a caricature, because it is done with the intimacy of affection.
He emphasises violently everything that industrialism has done to make the aspect of Lancashire more forbidding than that of most other places. Many of us may comfort ourselves a little with contemplating suburban roads, parks, or gardens in public squares, or with the lights and colours of morning or sunset. This artist has refused all comfortable delusions. He has kept his vision as fresh as if he had come suddenly into the most forbidding part of Hulme or Ancoats under the gloomiest skies after a holiday in France or Italy'
Man Holding Child Peel Park Going to the Match His Family The Cart
The Two Brothers The Noticeboard People standing about View of a town Our Town
Signed,Limited edition print L.S.Lowry Signed,Limited edition print signed print Signed,Limited edition print
Level Crossing Station Approach Level crossing, The contraption Industrial Panorama
with Train Signed Limited edition Burton-on-Trent Signed Limited edition
On the sands Deal The Beach Ferry boats The Harbour
signed, limited edition Signed limited edition signed,limited edition
The life and work of a of Salford's artist
Laurence Stephen Lowry began life in Rusholme, Manchester, November 1887, the only child of Mr R S Lowry from Ireland and his wife Elizabeth (maiden name; Hobson).
He attended a neighborhood school in Victoria Park, but took private classes from William Fitz, before begining his work as a clerk for an agency of chartered accountants in 1904,
that would show him the many sights he would later use for his paintings.
From 1905-1915 he attended drawing and painting courses at the Municipal College of Artwork (later Manchester Faculty of Artwork, and now a part of Manchester Metropolitan University), where he was tutored by the now well known an highly regarded artist, Adolphe Valette.
He moved to Pendlebury in Salford together with his parents in 1909, for almost forty years he lived here. Throughout this time he attended art classes at Salford School of Art, growing a strange, almost morbid curiosity for the city and industrial landscape. He was fascinated by its people, who toiled night and day against incredible odds, to make a living for themselves, working long hours in terrible conditions, with little to show financially. Large families living in small terrace houses with barely sufficient food, and the Fever Van never far away.
He exhibited with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts from 1919, as well as showing paintings in the Paris Salon. By the early 1930s he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London, and was awarded an honorary Master of Art at Manchester College in 1945, and Doctor of Letters in 1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Royal Academy, and given freedom of the City of Salford in 1965.
He lived in Mottram till he died in 1976; the people of Manchester showed an unprecedented homage to this great master of art.
L.S. Lowry is without doubt, one of the most celebrated of British artists and his unique contribution to recording the interval, tradition and panorama of commercial Salford and Manchester is without parallel.
His work is a most distinctive and comprehensive report of the pre and post World War Two northern industrial towns. Many people affiliate Lowry with "matchstick figures", but he's recognized to have produced over 10,000 works, ranging from completed oil paintings to swiftly drawn sketches.
The local industrial scenes were his most frequent topics but he additionally painted seascapes and portraits. He was an amazing humorist and had intense insight into human nature, characterising it without sentiment. Later in his life he worked on producing paintings of figures either singly or collectively, invariably in opposition to a white background.
He also produced thousands of pencil drawings throughout his lifetime, these have become very collectable and the most effective ones are very professionally drawn.
He died at hospital from pneumonia in 1976, with no registered physician.
He had little time for the financial sharks that would 'hound' him on a daily basis, and the galleries hoping to inherit a number of works in his will, they kept in close contact with him throughout his old age, only to learn that he had left all his paintings to a lady, with the same surname (Carol Ann), who had written him a letter when she was a young girl, asking how she may learn to be an artist.
Lowry's standing as one of the foremost British artists of the 20th Century was strengthened when the painting "Going To The Match" was sold for a record
£1.9 million to the Manchester based 'Professional Footballers Association'.
Manchester's newly built museum gallery, The Centre in Salford Quays, now holds a major collection of his work.
There are relatively few signed prints now available. Many artists such as David Shepherd
signed hundreds of titles, and each edition can sometimes be in excess of a thousand.
But Lowry agreed to only fifty four signed prints, and each title ranged from 95 to 850 in the edition. (75 in the case of the lithograph signed prints)
Once the signed prints had been published, the work was copyrighted and the original printing plates were destroyed so that apart from the original painting
only the agreed number of signed prints were produced.
Needless to say that after 50 or so years , from an edition of 850, there are a mere fraction of the edition that still exists in good condition.
Many will have been lost damaged (often by the glass breaking), being stored in damp conditions or the case of several titles,
fading, due to the printers who have not used the lightfast inks and acid free paper.
The highest price for one of the artist's paintings was £1.9 million when 'Going To The Match' was sold in 1999.
2007, the sale of the painting "Daisy Nook Fair" achieved £3.8m.
May, 2011 "The Football Match" painting (not 'Going to the match') was sold for £5,641,250.
November, 2011 The 1960 painting of 'Piccadilly Circus' by L.S.Lowry was sold for £5,641,250
Recently the 'Going to the Match' painting has been valued at £6,000,000-10,000,000
A large collection of Lowry signed prints for sale can be viewed at purchased on the website.