L S Lowry Sketch Picture Drawing – Lamp Post Test Practice 1962

L S Lowry Sketch Picture Drawing – Lamp Post Test Practice 1962

A card framed pencil sketch that appears to be a practice study of lamp post shapes, dated Glossop, June 1962. It is signed by Lowry and by ‘Harold Riley’, his pupil, and possibly one other.

The rear has another pencil drawing attached. It measures 12″ x 10″ in the card frame and is an original drawing, not a print.

A sheet linking Lowry with his best-known protégé is a fascinating piece for collectors of L S Lowry related art.

Looks like a practice for drawing lamp post shape designs.

Similar sketches to these are in the Lowry museum in Salford.

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?

• Harold Riley, born in Salford in 1934, was a friend and protégé of Lowry for many years.
• Riley became famous for his portraits and for his decades-long project of drawing and photographing Salford.

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