1926 - Bank Holiday

Bank Holiday 1926

Pencil

26.5 x 36 cm. (10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)

Sold [November 2005] for £19,200 including premium

Signed with Initials and Dated 1926 (lower left)

Provenance

Christie's, London, 17 June 1977, lot 167, where purchased by a former owner

There is an extremely faint inscription on the backboard, which, according to the 1977 catalogue, reads 'The artist himself appears in this drawing - back view - with cap and stick crossing the road.'

1926 - Rebuilding of Rylands Department Store, Piccadilly, Manchester

Rebuilding of Rylands Department Store, Piccadilly, Manchester c1926

Pencil

27 x 36 cm

Sold [March 2007] for £24,000 including premium

Provenance

with Pitcairn Galleries, Knutsford, 1983, where purchased by the present owner

Please note that this work is accompanied by a receipt in which the Pitcairn Galleries state that the drawing remained in the possession of L. S. Lowry through his life.

The authenticity of this drawing was kindly confirmed by The Lowry, when it was inspected on 22 March 2001.

1926 - An Accident

An Accident 1926

Oil on Panel

36.3 x 61 cm

A scene inspired by an incident in Pendlebury, Manchester, where a woman committed suicide by drowning. Seen against a backdrop of terraced houses, civic and industrial buildings, which are arranged across the background of the composition rather like a stage set against which the activity happens, a large crowd of people have gathered.