1st Mar, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
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Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
"Spittal, Berwick"
Signed, inscribed and dated 1960, pencil, 19.5cm by 24cm
Provenance: Headrow Gallery, Leeds
Despite his fame for depicting industrial landscapes, Lowry was very drawn to the North East coast. From the 1930's until the end of his life, Berwick-upon-Tweed became a favourite haunt for the artist. He delighted in the town's charm and drew inspiration from its dramatic seascapes. At least 20 paintings and drawings of the town and coastline by Lowry are in existence, including "Spittal Sands", Berwick, 1960.
Sold for £7,000
Estimated at £7,000 - £10,000
Slight time staining to the paper, this is especially evident to the outer edges where the mount has oxidised the paper. Small tear approx 0.5cm to lower left edge. The picture has been drawn on the back of what appears to be a typed letter. The paper is stuck to the backboard and we are unable to ascertain the content of the letter/ writing. There are two vertical creases to the paper vertically down where it has been folded at some point. There is a faint red line to the right of the centre down through the sky into the beach approx 8cm in length. This may have fed through from the reverse of the paper? Some very light surface dirt trapped under the glass. See images.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 1st Mar, 2025
“The Lieutenance Honfleur” by Edward Seago, one of Britain’s best known and most widely collected twentieth century artists, will be sold in the Modern and Contemporary Art Sale on 1st March. Edward Seago is known for his ability to capture a moment in paint with spontaneity and fluidity.
A strong selection of Northern Art is also on offer, with two pencil drawings by Laurence Stephen Lowry from a private collection, and Helen Layfield Bradley’s “Across Windermere”, in which she depicts a springtime trip she took with her family. Amongst a selection of works by mining artist Norman Cornish are three works from the artist's estate, and several pieces by the Manchester-born Geoffrey Key.
Scottish Art is well represented, with the pastel “Tall Red House” by Joan Eardley. Eardley is known for her powerful, expressive paintings of the gritty, the elemental, and the dilapidated in post-war Scotland. Also of interest is “Pink Rocks Iona” by John Lowie Morrison ‘Jolomo’, and works by Robin Phillipson and Elizabeth Blackadder.
Further highlights of the sale include works by Bernard Dunstan and his wife Diana Armfield, an interesting Still Life of Apples by Duncan Grant, a private collection of works by Paul Maze, a collection of prints by the much-loved etcher Norman Ackroyd and a selection of prints by the likes of Julian Trevelyan, Mark Hearld, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan and Damien Hirst.
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