L S Lowry Sketch Drawing Of His Mother – 1917 – OLD

L S Lowry Sketch Drawing Of His Mother – 1917 – OLD

A very old pencil sketch dated 1917, believed to depict L S Lowry’s mother and offered as an early Lowry drawing. The rear is marked NFS, 28gns and other writing.

Lowry made a number of portraits of his mother, Elizabeth, during the years the family lived in Pendlebury, and this sketch closely resembles her.

Early portrait studies are a little-known side of Lowry’s art, making this an intriguing piece of L S Lowry related artwork.

If this is real you are talking mega money, it should be in a museum if it is.

We have checked and Lowry painted a few of his mother whilst he lived in Swinton, and this one looks just like her!

Have a look at the Lowry museum sketches, one very similar to this.

This has a reference number on the rear as well, maybe a gallery one!

A Genuine painting, NOT a print.

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.

Did you know?

• Lowry’s mother Elizabeth was largely bedridden in later life, and he cared for her until her death in 1939.
• In 1917 Lowry was attending evening classes at the Manchester School of Art.
• ‘Gns’ stands for guineas, a traditional unit of price in the British art world worth 21 shillings.

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