L S Lowry Sketch Picture Drawing – Street Scene Manchester 1959

About this L S Lowry Manchester street scene sketch

A pencil sketch on old paper attributed to L S Lowry, dated 1959, showing a street scene, with an inscription on the rear referring to Manchester. The drawing measures approximately 9.5 by 7.5 inches and is laid down on paper on an A4 sheet with an outline sketch. It is a hand-drawn sketch and not a print. Manchester streets were Lowry’s lifelong subject, and his drawings remain a sought-after area of Lowry art collecting.

The actual size is 9.5" X 7.5" liad on to an A4 sheet.

This art work was part of a large collection purchased by us in one lot from the same person/collector, with lots of different artists are listed here to see. They are all just as we bought them, no frames, and no alterations, just as is.

We tried to get the Lowry pictures authenticated, but the dealer we took them to said they are really good, they see a lot of fakes, but they could not be 100% certain that they are genuine, so in this case they had to say no. This does not mean they are not genuine though, far from it, just one persons opinion. The Lowry Centre in Salford does not even look at peoples pictures, so we gave up. You may well find that these are genuine by the artist, and good luck, but we have run out of time to look around.

So these pictures are being sold as not genuine to be safe, it's your decision, you may well get a genuine masterpiece, or not. We have priced them extremely low, you may make thousands if they are real, or add to your collection at just a fraction of the price. Some of these items have reference numbers on the rear (could be gallery display numbers), some have NFS and some even have old prices on the rear as if offered for sale in a gallery.

Again we state it is your choice to decide, we are not selling these as genuine, no returns, sorry.

Condition: V Good, lcr, a few tiny marks, a few slight indentation marks of the pencil tip (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Lowry studied art for many years at evening classes, including under the French Impressionist painter Adolphe Valette at the Manchester Municipal College of Art.
• His crowds of figures in industrial streets are often affectionately called matchstick men, a phrase made famous by the 1978 hit song Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs.