LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
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LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)

Going to the Match

Details
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, R.A. (1887-1976)
Going to the Match
signed 'L.S. LOWRY' (lower right), signed again and dated 'L.S. Lowry. 1946.' (on the reverse), signed again 'L.S. Lowry' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
11 x 19 ½ in. (28 x 49.5 cm.)
Painted in 1946.
Provenance
The Rev. Geoffrey S. Bennett.
His sale; Christie's, London, 23 March 1995, lot 102.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 June 1999, lot 269, where purchased by the previous owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 2012, lot 43, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, L.S. Lowry: Early Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Geoffrey S. Bennett, Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 1961, n.p., no. 4, incorrectly dated '1931', illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Reverend Mr Bennett's Lowrys, Carlisle, Tullie House, 1978, n.p., no. 17, illustrated.
T.G. Rosenthal, L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist, Norwich, 2010, pp. 174-175, illustrated.
Exhibited
Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, L.S. Lowry: Early Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Geoffrey S. Bennett, June - August 1961, no. 4, incorrectly dated '1931'.
London, Royal Academy, L.S. Lowry, R.A., September - November 1976, no. 103, incorrectly dated '1931'.
Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, L.S. Lowry, December 1977 - January 1978, no. 17: this exhibition travelled to Hawick, Wilton Lodge Museum, January - February 1978; Aberdeen, Art Gallery, February - March 1978; Dundee, Museum and Art Gallery, March - April 1978; Inverness, Museum and Art Gallery, April - May 1978; and Perth, Museum and Art Gallery, May - June 1978.
Carlisle, Tullie House, The Reverend Mr Bennett's Lowrys, January - April 1992, no. 17.
Salford, The Lowry, on long term loan, 2012 - 2022.

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