Street Scene
Street Scene
Signed Print
L. S. Lowry
£3,850-£5,500
$7,000-$10,500 Value Indicator
$6,500-$9,500 Value Indicator
¥35,000-¥50,000 Value Indicator
€4,350-€6,000 Value Indicator
$40,000-$50,000 Value Indicator
¥650,000-¥930,000 Value Indicator
$4,850-$7,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 850
Year: 1961
Size: H 25cm x W 20cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2023 | Woolley & Wallis - United Kingdom | Street Scene - Signed Print | |||
| November 2023 | Bellmans, Sussex - United Kingdom | Street Scene - Signed Print | |||
| September 2023 | Tate Ward Auctions - United Kingdom | Street Scene - Signed Print | |||
| September 2023 | Mellors & Kirk - United Kingdom | Street Scene - Signed Print | |||
| August 2023 | Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers - Ireland | Street Scene - Signed Print | |||
| July 2023 | Ross's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | Street Scene - Signed Print | |||
| July 2023 | Capes Dunn - United Kingdom | Street Scene - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
L. S. Lowry’s print Street Scene from 1961 is a portrait composition showing a view of a street in an industrial inner city. This print is a vivid record of life in industrial northern England, marked by the smokestack at the top of the composition, with crowds of people walking up the hill towards the factory buildings in the backdrop.
Visible in this print is Lowry’s stiff consistency in his choice of paint and the way in which he used it. Lowry painted with Winsor & Newton Winton Oil Colour throughout his entire career and used the paint straight from the tube. Using a very limited colour palette, Lowry said of his choice of materials, “I am a simple man, I use simple materials: ivory black, vermilion, Prussian blue, yellow ochre, flake white and no medium.” In Street Scene it becomes clear that Lowry’s unique painterly style worked to produce modest, yet vividly realistic industrial scenes.
In this print there are no shadows cast from Lowry’s highly stylised figures and along with the artist’s use of white paint for the ground and sky, this gives the impression that there is no sunlight in this scene. The lack of sunlight gives the scene a melancholy tone, as though the smoke from the mills have seeped into the atmosphere, characterised by what art historian John Rothenstein called ‘a kind of gloomy lyricism.’
