LOWRY PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & PRINTS Paintings and Drawings 02 A River Scene, on the Clyde 04 Boy with Bucket 18 Figures in a Park 06 Clifton, Pendlebury 20 Family Group 08 A Country Lane 22 GroupCONTENTS of Children 10 Farm Cottages with Haystack 24 Factory Gate 12 Industrial Landscape 26 Queen’s Dock, Glasgow 14 Fishing Boat 28 Six Figures 16 Limited Edition Prints 2 Going to the Match 4 Two Brothers 48 The Football Match 6 His Family 50 Mill Scene 8 Group of Children 52 Britain at Play 10 Meeting Point 54 The Reference Library 12 View of a Town 56 St. Simon’s Church 14 Huddersfield 58 St. Mary’s, Beswick 16 Three Men and a Cat 60 Burford Church 18 Man on the Wall 62 St. Luke’s Church 20 People Standing About 64 Great Ancoats Street 22 Man Holding Child 66 Mrs Swindells’ Picture 24 Industrial Scene 68 The Fever Van 26 Lonely house 70 The Cart 28 Industrial town 72 The Contraption 30 Peel Park 74 Station Approach 32 Berwick-upon-Tweed 76 The Level Crossing 34 Landscape with Farm Buildings 78 Sailing Boats 36 Our Town 80 Ferry Boats 38 Market Scene in a Northern Town 82 The Harbour 40 Crime Lake 84 The Beach 42 Industrial Panorama 86 Street Scene 44 The Pond 88 The Family 46 Woman with Beard 90 Whitewall Galleries is delighted to present an exhibition of work from L.S.Lowry, one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century. Lowry was a highly individual artist with a unique style; his work spans the first half of the twentieth century and records with sensitivity and wit his own personal view of the people, industry, culture and architecture of Northern Britain. In the last twenty years he has become one of the UK’s most highly prized artists. While in 1999 the highest price for one of his paintings had been £1.9 million, the most recent public valuation was between £6 million and £10 million. These highly sought-after masterpieces range from classic industrial scenes to local landscapes and landmarks, and represent a superb opportunity for investors, collectors or first time buyers to acquire a piece of our heritage from a twentieth century master. 01 02 LIMITED EDITION PRINTS 03 Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (1887-1976) Going to the Match Signed, limited edition of 300 After the 1953 painting of the same name (Collection: The Lowry collection, Salford, on loan from the Professional Footballers’ Association.) Image size 21 x 27 inches (53.34 x 68.6 cm) Stamped by the Fine Art Trade Guild Published in 1972 by The Medici Society Printed in Austria Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Edition Prints of L.S. Lowry, Scolar Press 1979, p.22 Going to the Match is one of Lowry’s most sought after signed limited edition prints. Lowry’s original 1928 painting Going to the Match was acquired by the Professional Footballers’ Association in 1999 for approximately £2,000,000. One of several football subjects painted by Lowry, Going to the Match depicts Burnden Park, the home of The Bolton Wanderers football club, a ground only a few miles from Pendlebury and often visited by Lowry as a young man. As the Lowry collector Sir Ian McKellern has commented “until Lowry painted his crowds, no other artist had recorded how people (and animals) look and behave en masse. Each individual is on his/her own journey across the canvas yet leaning to form the crowd with its own collective identity. Once you have seen how Lowry saw us, you cannot ever see or be in a football crowd, nor watch kids playing, workers leaving the factory, queuing, or stopping to chat or hear the fairground barker, without saying, “Lowry! It’s just like a Lowry painting!” Going about our business or pleasure, we are all subjects of his vision.’ Sir Ian McKellen, ‘My lifelong passion for L.S. Lowry’, The Telegraph, 21st April 2011 04 05 Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A (1887-1976) The Football Match After a drawing executed in 1946 Signed and numbered limited edition print on heavy cotton wove paper from the edition of 850 Image size: 9 x 14 inches (22.3 x 35.5 cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” lower right Published in 1973 by Harold Riley Bears the publisher’s stamp lower left Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Edition Prints of L.S. Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979, p.24 06 07 Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (1887-1976) Mill Scene After the original 1959 oil painting of the same name Limited edition print on heavy cotton wove paper 12 x 16 inches Signed “L.S. Lowry” in pencil lower right Not Stamped (as issued) from the edition of 750 Published by The Sunday Observer newspaper Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Edition Prints of L.S. Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979, p.23 08 09 Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (1887-1976) Britain at Play After the 1943 painting of the same name in The Usher Museum, Lincoln Signed, limited edition print on wove paper from the edition of 850 Image size: 17.5 x 23.5 in. (44.45 x 59.69 cm.) Stamped by The Fine Art Trade Guild Published by Mainstone publications Printed by Beric Press Ltd. Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited edition Prints of L.S. Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979, p.35 10 11 Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A (1887-1976) The Reference Library After the original drawing of the same name Signed limited edition print on wove paper from the edition of 850 Image size: 9.5 x 13.75 inches (24.1 x 34.9 cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” in pencil lower right Stamped by the Fine Art Trade Guild Published by Henry Donn in 1972 Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Editions of L.S.Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979 12 13 Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A (1887-1976) St Simon’s Church After an original drawing executed in 1927 Signed and numbered limited edition print on wove paper from the edition of 300 Image size: 15 x 11 inches (38 x 28 cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” in pencil lower right Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Editions of L.S.Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979 Lowry made his initial sketch of St Simon’s Church in 1927 at his father’s suggestion. Generally, Robert Lowry expressed little interest in his son’s work but thought that this building, due for demolition, might appeal to him. When Lowry returned to the site, a month after making his sketch, the church was gone. The related painting in The L.S. Lowry collection in Salford, A Street Scene (St Simon’s Church), was completed in the following year. 14 15 Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A (1887-1976) St. Mary’s, Beswick After an original pencil drawing executed in 1927 Signed limited edition on wove paper from the edition of 500 Image size: 10.25 x 14.5 inches (26 x 37 cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” in pencil lower right Published by Henry Donn with his blindsamp 16 17 Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (1887-1976) Burford Church After a 1948 oil painting of St John the Baptist Church, Burford, North Oxfordshire Signed limited edition print on wove paper from the edition of 850 17 x 23 inches (43.2 x 58.5cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” lower right Published by Grove Galleries Limited, Manchester c.1970s Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Editions of L.S.Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979, p.27 18 19 Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (1887-1976) St Lukes Church, London Signed limited edition print on wove paper from the edition of 850 Image size 24.25 x 18 inches Numbered and stamped by the publisher Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Editions of L.S. Lowry, The Scolar Press, 1979, p.30 “Until very recently I’ve been going to London a once a month for 50 year – I had an aunt there for a long time – but I did almost no work in London except for one of St Luke’s Church, Old Street. I’d been told it had the ugliest spire in the world. So naturally I had to go and look at it.” Lowry in conversation with Edwin Mullins, 1966. 20 21 Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A (1887-1976) Great Ancoats Street, Manchester After the original 1930 drawing, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester (The Lowry Collection, Salford) Signed and numbered limited edition print from the edition of 850 Image size: 10.25 x 14.25 in. (26 x 36 cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” in pencil lower right Published by Harold Riley with his blind stamp lower left Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Edition Prints of L.S. Lowry, Scolar Press, 1979, p.24 22 23 Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A (1887-1976) Mrs Swindells’ Picture After the 1967 painting of the same name Signed limited edition print on wove paper from the edition of 850 Image size: 16 x 12 in. (41 x 30.5 cm) Signed “L.S. Lowry” in pencil lower right Published by the Adam Collection Printed by Chorley and Pickersgill Ltd. Literature: Henry Donn, The Illustrated Limited Editions of L.S. Lowry, The Scolar Press, 1979, p.28 Bessie Swindells was Lowry’s housekeeper; she had arrived in 1954, to help out for two weeks and stayed until his death in 1976. She lived half a mile away and walked up the hill to The Elms every day for twenty-two years to clean the house and to do his laundry.