L.S. Lowry RA 1887-1976

Mount with Figures, 1971

Pencil drawing
16 x 11¾ ins (40.64 x 29.85 cms)
Signed "L.S. Lowry, 1971" (lower right)

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Provenance

A gift from L.S. Lowry to Carol Ann Lowry.

Exhibition History

The Lowry Centre, Salford
Sunderland, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, on long term loan.

Literature

L.S. Lowry in the North East, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, 2010. Illustrated p 67 plate 74.

General Notes

LS Lowry is famously quoted as saying that Had I not been lonely, none of my work would have happened. I should not have done what I've done, or seen the way I saw things.

He expressed this feeling of loneliness in a number of drawings and paintings, most of which, like this one, were produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In these works, he would use a solitary obelisk or island in the middle of the sea to represent the sense of isolation he felt, both as a man and a painter.