Cowles Fish & Chips, Cleator Moor

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Cowles Fish & Chips, Cleator Moor
signed and dated 'L.S. Lowry 1948' (lower right)
pencil and coloured crayon on blue paper
10 5/8 x 14½ in. (27 x 36.9 cm.)

Provenance

The Reverend Geoffrey Bennett; Christie's, London, 23 March 1995, lot 100 [£45,500].

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Reverend Mr Bennett's Lowrys, Carlisle, Tullie House, 1992, no. 7, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, L.S. Lowry 1887-1976, September - November 1976, no. 175, as 'The Chip Shop, Cleator Moor'.
Carlisle, Tullie House, The Reverend Mr Bennett's Lowrys, January - April 1992, no. 7, as 'Cowles Fish and Chips'.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, L.S. Lowry Works on Paper, October - November 1998.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The previous owner of this work, Reverend Geoffrey Bennett had been a close friend of the artist, since they had met in Manchester in 1926. After Bennett moved with his wife Alice to Cumbria, Lowry became a regular visitor to the family home. Cowles Fish & Chips, Cleator Moor depicted a local shop in Cleator Moor and was drawn with the Bennetts' son's pastels during one such visit.

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