L S Lowry Sketch – Two Tramps – On Rear of Rent Book Form 1958

An old pencil sketch of two tramps, offered as the work of L S Lowry, drawn on the rear of an old rent book cover card and dated 1958. ‘Rathbone Street’ appears at the top left edge.

The sketch measures 4″ x 6″ and is an original drawing, not a print. Lowry spent most of his working life as a rent collector, so a rent book card is a fitting surface.

Lowry’s lonely figures and down-and-outs are among his most recognisable subjects, and this is a fascinating piece of L S Lowry related art.

Laurie Lowry used to be a rent collector for many years!

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 worked as a rent collector and later chief cashier for the Pall Mall Property Company in Manchester until he retired in 1952.
• He kept his full-time job largely quiet, wanting to be seen as a professional painter.
• Lowry often said his solitary figures reflected his own loneliness.

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