Breakdown under the Bridge

细节

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Breakdown under the Bridge
signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1960' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 x 12 1/8 in. (25.4 x 30.8 cm.)

来源

with Crane Kalman, London, where purchased by the present owner at the 1966 exhibition.

展览

London, Crane Kalman, A Tribute to L.S. Lowry, November 1966 - January 1967, no. 29, as 'Breakdown under a Railway Bridge'.
probably, London, Royal Academy, L.S. Lowry 1887-1976, September - November 1976, no. 254, as 'Accident on the Bridge'.

注意事项

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拍品专文

In the late 1950s, Lowry introduced the image of the cab into his work. Levy comments, 'It was, he said, originally inspired by a curious contraption he saw trundling the streets of Manchester, a man perched at the front and driving the vehicle by a kind of handle. It was black and narrow, with small windows at each side and at the back ... But its fortutitous appearance was important since it provided the artist with a new and impersonal image that could symbolize the passage of human life through the unending flow and mystery of existence ... There is strength and mystery, and sadness too, in this drawing of the cab moving slowly away from us into the gloom of the unknown. It is carrying the artist ...' (M. Levy, Drawings of L.S. Lowry, London, 1963, p. 22).