Lot #3133: L. S. LOWRY - The Way to the Cottage - Pencil drawing

 

Artist: L. S. Lowry (English, 1887 - 1976).
Title: "The Way to the Cottage".
Medium: Pencil drawing.
Date: Composed 1930.
Dimensions: Overall size: 9 3/8 x 13 9/16 in. (238 x 344 mm). Image size: 9 3/8 x 13 5/16 in. (238 x 338 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $16,000
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $20,000/25,000
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated lower left. Drawn on cream wove stiff heavyweight paper. Very good condition; minor foxing and one very small spot upper left, recto, minor foxing verso; slight tanning on three edges; white cloth tape left margin, indicating that it well might have been removed from a sketchbook. Provenance: Acquired by our consignor from a private collector, Clitheroe, Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. A companion work, acquired from the same individual, is offered in our Day 1 auction. Friday, June 19th.
Comment(s): Recent comparable sales of Lowry’s larger pencil landscapes include the sale of a signed and dated 1964 drawing (‘Lake Nafooey’) for £52,500 ($68, 910) at Christie’s London, King Street, 6/18/2019, lot #145; and the sale of an unsigned work from 1942 (‘The Bronte Country’) for £13,813 ($18,130) at Bonhams Bond Street, 11/20/2019, lot #41. Laurence Stephen Lowry RA was born in Stretford, Lancashire. Many of his paintings and drawings depict people in Pendlebury, where he lived and worked for over 40 years, and Salford and its surrounding areas. On 26 June 2013 a major retrospective on his work opened at the Tate Britain in London, his first at the Tate. Bonnie Day, Bonhams London, wrote: “Lowry’s work was highly sought after and his drawings from the 1930s especially display his draughtsmanship at its very best.” Mervyn Levy observed: “Few British painters have provided in their drawings so complete and revealing a conspectus of their aesthetic, intellectual, and intuitive objectives, as L.S. Lowry.” Image copyright © The Estate of L.S. Lowry/DACS. [30007-2-16000-NA]