Bloomsbury Square
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)
Bloomsbury Square, 1967
Lithograph on paper
Signed ‘L.S. Lowry’ lower right and ‘Bloomsbury Square June 1967 London WC 1’ lower left in pencil
Numbered from the edition of 75
Published by Ganymed Editions, London.
Printed by M. A. Wolfsensberger A. G. Zurich
Size: 24.5 x 19 in. (61 x 48 cm)
(Please enquire for availability)
Referred to as both an artist and a social historian, L.S. Lowry is celebrated for his poignant depictions of poverty and the reality of working-class life in the North of England. The present work is not set in Lowry’s more traditional locale of the industrial North, and instead brings us to London’s Bloomsbury Square. It is hard to imagine while looking at this figure – one who exudes feelings of tiredness, hunger and cold – that this image was created in the same year the United Kingdom signed the Outer Space Treaty with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Lowry works often appear frozen in an earlier time, harking back to decades previous where the melancholy of war was still in the air. The jubilance of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ of London is not evident in this image, instead the viewer is confronted with poverty faced by this single figure sleeping rough on a park bench, his anonymity created though a lack of detail. Without the title, the location of the work would also be unrecognisable. The rough and sketchy style of the work makes it seem as though this figure was one that Lowry saw himself while visiting London and was compelled to draw because of his unfortunate condition.
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Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)
Bloomsbury Square, 1967
Lithograph on paper
Signed ‘L.S. Lowry’ lower right and ‘Bloomsbury Square June 1967 London WC 1’ lower left in pencil
Numbered from the edition of 75
Published by Ganymed Editions, London.
Printed by M. A. Wolfsensberger A. G. Zurich
Size: 24.5 x 19 in. (61 x 48 cm)
(Please enquire for availability)
Referred to as both an artist and a social historian, L.S. Lowry is celebrated for his poignant depictions of poverty and the reality of working-class life in the North of England. The present work is not set in Lowry’s more traditional locale of the industrial North, and instead brings us to London’s Bloomsbury Square. It is hard to imagine while looking at this figure – one who exudes feelings of tiredness, hunger and cold – that this image was created in the same year the United Kingdom signed the Outer Space Treaty with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Lowry works often appear frozen in an earlier time, harking back to decades previous where the melancholy of war was still in the air. The jubilance of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ of London is not evident in this image, instead the viewer is confronted with poverty faced by this single figure sleeping rough on a park bench, his anonymity created though a lack of detail. Without the title, the location of the work would also be unrecognisable. The rough and sketchy style of the work makes it seem as though this figure was one that Lowry saw himself while visiting London and was compelled to draw because of his unfortunate condition.
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Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)
Bloomsbury Square, 1967
Lithograph on paper
Signed ‘L.S. Lowry’ lower right and ‘Bloomsbury Square June 1967 London WC 1’ lower left in pencil
Numbered from the edition of 75
Published by Ganymed Editions, London.
Printed by M. A. Wolfsensberger A. G. Zurich
Size: 24.5 x 19 in. (61 x 48 cm)
(Please enquire for availability)
Referred to as both an artist and a social historian, L.S. Lowry is celebrated for his poignant depictions of poverty and the reality of working-class life in the North of England. The present work is not set in Lowry’s more traditional locale of the industrial North, and instead brings us to London’s Bloomsbury Square. It is hard to imagine while looking at this figure – one who exudes feelings of tiredness, hunger and cold – that this image was created in the same year the United Kingdom signed the Outer Space Treaty with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Lowry works often appear frozen in an earlier time, harking back to decades previous where the melancholy of war was still in the air. The jubilance of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ of London is not evident in this image, instead the viewer is confronted with poverty faced by this single figure sleeping rough on a park bench, his anonymity created though a lack of detail. Without the title, the location of the work would also be unrecognisable. The rough and sketchy style of the work makes it seem as though this figure was one that Lowry saw himself while visiting London and was compelled to draw because of his unfortunate condition.
