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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2013 | Bonhams | London | Modern British and Irish Art | 29 | $****** - ****** | Steps At Wick |
paintings
43.2 x 53.3 cm (17.01 x 20.98 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY. 1937' (lower left) and titled 'Steps at Wick' (on the canvas overlap); further signed '-.S. Lowry' (on a partial label attached to the stretcher)
With Alex Reid & Lefevre, London With Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh The Brodie of Brodie Sale; Christie's, Hopetoun House, 15 October 1969, lot 151 With Crane Kalman Gallery, London, May 1975 where acquired by Mr. J Austin Frank Austin Sale; Christie's, London, 12 March 1982, lot 255 With Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 6 July 1993
Private Collection, U.K
London, Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition 1939; London and Londoners, 1939, cat.no.246 Salford, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Laurence S. Lowry RBA, 1-31 October 1941, cat.no.10 (£30) Sunderland, Sunderland Art Gallery, Industrial Street Scenes etc by Lawrence [sic] S Lowry RBA, 21 September-13 October 1942, cat.no.7 (£30) Edinburgh, Aitken Dott & Son, L.S. Lowry, 4-16 September 1944, H.7486, (as The Steps of Wick) Edinburgh, The Scottish Arts Council, Modern Art from Scottish Houses; Inaugural Exhibition of the Scottish Arts Council's New Gallery, 13 July-9 August 1969, cat.no.33 (as Steps in Wick) London, Crane Kalman Gallery, L.S. Lowry, A Selection of 36 Paintings, 4 November-6 December 1975, cat.no.9 (ill.b&w, as The Steps at Wick) London, Royal Academy of Arts, L.S. Lowry R.A., 1887-1976, 4 September-14 November 1976, cat.no.119 (as The Steps at Wick, where lent by Frank Austin) Manchester, The Barn Gallery, A Summer Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Northern Artists, 10 June-31 July 1993, cat.no.77
Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry, Oil and Watercolours, Jupiter Books, London, 1975, pl.105 (ill.b&w) Exhibition Catalogue, L.S. Lowry R.A., 1887-1976, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1976, p.65-66 (ill.b&w) Shelley Rohde, L.S. Lowry, A Biography, The Lowry Press, Salford, 1999, p.334
