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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
The Railway Platform
signed and dated 'LS LOWRY 1953' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1953.
Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by a private collector.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 November 2011, lot 19, where purchased by the previous owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 2015, lot 5, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., London, Lefevre Gallery, 1976, pp. 6, 25, no. 15, illustrated.
M. Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry: Oils and Watercolours, London, 1978, pl. 59.
D. McLean, L.S. Lowry, London, 1978, p. 14, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Modern British Paintings, London, Richard Green, 1984, pp. 68-69, no. 38, illustrated.
T.G. Rosenthal, L.S. Lowry: The Art and The Artist, Norwich, 2010, p. 179, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by L.S. Lowry, October 1953, no. 20.
Sunderland, Arts Council of Great Britain, Sunderland Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry, R.A.: Retrospective Exhibition, August - September 1966, no. 72: 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.
London, Lefevre Gallery, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by L.S. Lowry R.A., May - July 1976, no. 15.
London, Royal Academy, L.S. Lowry, R.A., September - November 1976, no. 201.
London, Richard Green, Modern British Paintings, May 1984, no. 38.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan, 2016-2022.
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.