Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976) Oldham Road signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1929' (lower left) pencil 28 x 38.5 cm. (11 x 15 1/8 in.) Fußnoten Provenance With Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 31 May 1971, where purchased by Dr & Mrs Blum, New York With Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 12 January 2001, where purchased by the present owner Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Established, Undervalued and Young Artists, 7 December 2000-16 January 2001 Lowry's interest in depicting the industrial North can be dated back to the period before the outbreak of the First World War. However it was during the 1920's that he really began to build up and formulate the pictorial vocabulary of his industrial landscapes, for which he would become so known and loved. He probably produced more work in this decade than any other and exhibited widely with the New English Art Club and Society of Modern Painters, among others. The present work dates from 1929 and depicts an imaginary scene on a section of Oldham Road, a favoured place for the artist. A number of figures move across the composition, singly and in pairs, some hold dogs on leads whilst others stand gossiping at a window. They wear typically heavy coats, boots and hats reflecting the often bitter Northern climate and one central figure props himself up with his walking stick. The desired impression is that these are normal, 'salt of the earth' people going about their daily business. Executed in heavily shaded pencil, the residential buildings lining each side of the street work as a compositional device to funnel the viewers eye down the road, taking in all the 'action'. Nothing special is happening but Lowry's delight was in discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, a gift that is abundantly clear in the present work. The year after the present work was executed, in 1930, Lowry had his first one-man exhibition in Manchester which was 100% sold and this victory was reinforced when in 1932 he had work accepted by The Royal Academy. The momentum was short-lived though and progress then stalled owing to the death of his father and declining health of his mother. Thus the present work can be seen as dating from a pivotal period of artistic fervour that resulted in Lowry's first real commercial and public success.
Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976) Oldham Road signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1929' (lower left) pencil 28 x 38.5 cm. (11 x 15 1/8 in.) Fußnoten Provenance With Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 31 May 1971, where purchased by Dr & Mrs Blum, New York With Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 12 January 2001, where purchased by the present owner Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Established, Undervalued and Young Artists, 7 December 2000-16 January 2001 Lowry's interest in depicting the industrial North can be dated back to the period before the outbreak of the First World War. However it was during the 1920's that he really began to build up and formulate the pictorial vocabulary of his industrial landscapes, for which he would become so known and loved. He probably produced more work in this decade than any other and exhibited widely with the New English Art Club and Society of Modern Painters, among others. The present work dates from 1929 and depicts an imaginary scene on a section of Oldham Road, a favoured place for the artist. A number of figures move across the composition, singly and in pairs, some hold dogs on leads whilst others stand gossiping at a window. They wear typically heavy coats, boots and hats reflecting the often bitter Northern climate and one central figure props himself up with his walking stick. The desired impression is that these are normal, 'salt of the earth' people going about their daily business. Executed in heavily shaded pencil, the residential buildings lining each side of the street work as a compositional device to funnel the viewers eye down the road, taking in all the 'action'. Nothing special is happening but Lowry's delight was in discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, a gift that is abundantly clear in the present work. The year after the present work was executed, in 1930, Lowry had his first one-man exhibition in Manchester which was 100% sold and this victory was reinforced when in 1932 he had work accepted by The Royal Academy. The momentum was short-lived though and progress then stalled owing to the death of his father and declining health of his mother. Thus the present work can be seen as dating from a pivotal period of artistic fervour that resulted in Lowry's first real commercial and public success.
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