Tuesday 9 July 2013

1961 - Woman Walking

Woman Walking 1961
Pencil
30 x 20.5 cm
Sold for £13,200 including premium
Signed and Dated 'L S Lowry 1961' (lower left)

Provenance
Purchased from Parkinson, Son and Hamer auction rooms, 10 May 1973 by the present owner

Literature
Mervyn Levy, The Drawings of L.S.Lowry, Public and Private, Jupiter Books, London, 1976, pl.203 (ill.b&w)

The previous owner showed this drawing to Lowry, circa 1970. The artist stated that he had seen this figure, a nun, in a street near Ancoats, Manchester.

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