Category: LS Lowry

LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m

by The Guardian | Apr 8, 2025 | Art, Art and design, Culture, LS Lowry, Manchester, North of England, Painting, The Guardian, UK news | 0 |

Rare early work Going to the Mill is to be auctioned after remaining in the Wallace family since 1926When LS Lowry sold one of his earliest paintings to the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian in 1926, he had an immediate...

‘I put his matchstick men in the bin’: Lowry’s lost sketches go on display for first time

by The Guardian | May 18, 2024 | Art, Art and design, Culture, Drawing, Exhibitions, LS Lowry, Painting, The Guardian, UK news | 0 |

When on holiday in Berwick the artist often gave his work away. Now a new exhibition reveals the value of drawings that survived in a shoebox A 1958 drawing of a family with their dogs by LS Lowry from one of his many holidays...