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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2024 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction | 16 | $****** - ****** | Good | Family Group |
paintings
46.5 x 39 cm (18.31 x 15.35 in)
oil on canvas
signed L.S. LOWRY and dated 1936 (lower left)
Dr. A.W. Laing
Sale, Sotheby"s London, 8 July 1970, lot 58
Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner, 1972
London, Alex. Reid and Lefevre Ltd., Paintings of the Midlands by L.S. Lowry , February 1939, no. 24
Salford, Festival of Britain, City Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of L.S. Lowry, 21 July - 19 August 1951, no. 44
Manchester, City Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry Retrospective Exhibition, 3 June - 12 July 1959, no. 28
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, The Works of L.S. Lowry, 15 September - 14 October 1962, no. 23
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, British Paintings, 8 December 1971 - 15 January 1972, no. 20, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, L.S. Lowry, A Selection of 36 Paintings, 4 November - 6 December 1975, no. 6, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, L.S. Lowry R.A., 1887-1976, 4 September - 14 November 1976, no. 114
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 32 Major Works by L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) , March - April 1982, no. 2
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, L.S. Lowry, A Centenary Tribute, 29 October - 28 November 1987, no. 3, illustrated in the exh. cat.
Middlesborough, Cleveland Art Gallery, Lowry , 5 December 1987 - 17 January 1988, no. 98, with tour to Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery, Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and London, Barbican Art Gallery
London, Hayward Gallery, Innocence and Experience , 1991 - 1992, no. 12, details untraced
Salford, The Lowry, Conversation Pieces , 5 July - 5 October 2003, unnumbered
Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry , London, 1975, illustrated pl. 13 (as The Family )
Michael Howard, Lowry: A Visionary Artist , Lowry Press, Salford, 2000, pp. 144-5, illustrated (as Short Time, Family Discord also known as Interior )
Andras Kalman, Andrew Lambirth, L. S. Lowry Conversation Pieces , Chaucer Press, 2003, pp. 64-5, illustrated (as Family Group )
Tom Rosenthal, L. S. Lowry, The Art and The Artist , Unicorn Press, Lewes, 2010, pp. 148-9, illustrated
Property from an Esteemed British Collection
Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A.
1887 - 1976
Family Group
signed L.S. LOWRY and dated 1936 (lower left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 46.5 by 39cm.; 18¼ by 15¼in.
framed: 63 by 55cm.; 24¾ by 21½in.
Executed in 1936.
