£2,500.00
L S Lowry Drawing Pen Ink Pencil Sketch – The Sea Front 1949
A pencil and ink sketch of the sea front, attributed to L. S. Lowry, on an 11″ x 7.5″ page removed from a sketch book and signed LSL. The rear is inscribed 28/06/1949, ‘7pm – to the spa from cliff bridge’.
An original drawing, not a print, it was said by the seller to have come from an art dealer’s sale in Warrington, though there is no formal provenance.
An evocative seaside study for collectors of Lowry attributed drawings and British coastal art.
| Size | 11" X 7.5" |
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This art work was has a bit of history with it.
The person we bought it from said that it came from an art dealer who sold them in a sale Warrington.
They took it to the London art dealers Richard Green and his assistant both saw them.
And was quite convinced, and said to take them to Christies auction house in South Kensington.
They booked them in to be sold, but the branch closed.
We have documents relating to this as shown, but they do not come as part of this sale.
We tried to get the Lowry pictures authenticated, but a 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 now, so we gave up.
You may well find that these are genuine by the artist, and good luck, but we have completed our journey on these, you may have more time that us to follow it up.
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, vlcr, part of the sketch book spine is still attached
Did you know?
- The sea held a lifelong fascination for Lowry, and his late seascapes are often almost empty of figures.
- Lowry regularly took holidays at the English seaside and sketched the resorts he visited.
SKU: ART0149
