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Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry.. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England.
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (/ ˈ l aʊ r i / LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.
The 1930 version of Coming from the Mill, painted some 13 years later, is evidence of a change in Lowry's use of light. Writing in the Manchester Guardian , his former tutor at the Salford School of Art , Bernard D. Taylor , criticised Lowry's paintings for being too dark.
The historic painting, depicting a throng of people gathered at Burnden Park football stadium, sold for a record-breaking £6.6 million on Wednesday. Lowry masterpiece to remain free for public ...
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The artwork of an auction scene is among a series of paintings going under the hammer at Sotheby’s Modern British and Irish Art sale. Lowry painting set to fetch more than £1.2m at auction Skip ...
The painting will headline Christies Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale on October 19. Lowry masterpiece sold to private collector would be tragic – mayor of Salford Skip to main content
In 1954, Leonard Cohen and Henry's Stores Ltd of Market Street commissioned a painting from Lowry, and it seems likely that Lowry used these initial sketches as a reference. In January 1956, Piccadilly Gardens was presented to the City Art Gallery as a gift from Henry's Stores to mark the 80th birthday of the company's co-founder, Mrs Henry Cohen.