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L.S. Lowry Limited Edition "Going to Work, 1959"
5877 - Rare limited edition by L.S. Lowry titled "Going to Work, 1959". Published as a numbered edition of only 75 plus two "Master Printer" proofs Worldwide of which this is the Masters printers proof number 2 (MPP2). Complete with a certificate of authenticity signed by the "Master Printer" and replacement valuation for £1650 (free of charge). In bespoke frame and art mount. Condition is mint. "Going To Work" is a 1959 watercolour. Lowry painted only a small number of watercolours. This picture returns to one of his favorite themes: a swarm of workers funneling towards the factory gates to start their working day, against a landscape of terraced houses, looming structures and smoky chimneys. Lowry commented " I wanted to paint myself into what absorbed me. Natural figures would have broken the spell of it, so I made my figures half unreal. Some critics have said that I turned my figures into puppets, as if my aim were to hint at the hard economic necessities that drove them. To say the truth, I was not thinking very much about the people. I did not care for them in the way a social reformer does. They are part of a private beauty that haunted me. I loved them and the houses in the same way: as part of a vision. H: 85cm W: 97cm D: 4cm
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