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LS Lowry’s portray Sunday Afternoon bought for £6.3m

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The general public final noticed the LS Lowry portray 57 years in the past

LS Lowry’s portray Sunday Afternoon has bought at public sale for nearly £6.3m.

The work, which had not been publicly exhibited since 1977, was anticipated to fetch £4m-£6m at Christie’s Trendy British And Irish Artwork sale.

It was final bought in 1967, realising a file value for the artist, and was supplied from the gathering of Sir Keith and Girl Showering.

The 1957 portray, of a densely-populated industrial panorama, fetched £6,290,000, together with a purchaser’s premium

It’s the second highest value achieved for Lowry at public sale, after his 1953 portray Going To The Match bought at Christie’s in October 2022 for £7,846,500.

The paintings exhibits what Stretford-born Lowry, who died in 1976, described because the “battle of life”.

It had been on show for per week at Christie’s.

‘As soon as-in-a-generation’

The portray was obtained from the gathering of Sir Keith Showering, a former chief government of Europe’s greatest drinks enterprise, Allied Breweries.

Phillip Harley, senior director at Christie’s, stated its sale was a “once-in-a-generation” occasion.

He stated: “The composition represents the marvel the artist felt as he recorded his many observations of the evolving society round him.”

Born Laurence Stephen Lowry in 1887, the artist depicted industrial life in Better Manchester and produced greater than 1,000 artworks throughout his lifetime.

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6.3m Afternoon Lowrys painting Sold Sunday
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