View Of A Town
View Of A Town
Signed Print
L S Lowry
£1,500-£2,250
$3,000-$4,500 Value Indicator
$2,700-$4,050 Value Indicator
¥14,000-¥21,000 Value Indicator
€1,800-€2,750 Value Indicator
$15,000-$22,000 Value Indicator
¥290,000-¥440,000 Value Indicator
$1,900-$2,850 Value Indicator
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 850
Year: 1973
Size: H 43cm x W 55cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh | United Kingdom | |||
| July 2024 | Ewbank's | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2024 | Bonhams New Bond Street | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2024 | Gorringes | United Kingdom | |||
| January 2024 | Fieldings Auctioneers | United Kingdom | |||
| December 2023 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2023 | Mellors & Kirk | United Kingdom |
Meaning & Analysis
L. S. Lowry’s lithograph, View Of A Town from 1973, shows an industrial vista, seen from a high point in the town, with people walking along the pavement in the very foreground of the image. The print shows many features typical of Lowry’s work such as smoking chimneys, terraced houses and figures from all walks of life going about their daily business.
Elements of this print convey a sense of realism, but like many of Lowry’s works, this is a composite image. Lowry’s paintings were fundamentally composed from a variety of repeated motifs, growing increasingly sentimental as his career went on. The artist said, “I hadn’t the slightest idea of what I was going to put in the canvas when I started the picture, but it eventually came out as you see it. This is the way I like working best.”
As the composition stretches further back, the industrial buildings seem to be piled on top of one another, as the scene moves down the hill of the town. Black smoke from the mills merge into the sky and clouds, and there seems to be no distinction between the natural and the industrial. There is an unclean, smoke-filled atmosphere to this scene due to Lowry’s use of colour and the figures appear to be naturalised within the industrial environment.
