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‡ LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RA (1887 - 1976) oil on board - three figures in an archway with centre figure in large boots, overcoat and cap, all to an ivory and ochre background, entitled verso 'Man Looking at Something', dated 1961, 21 x 18.8cms Provenance: collection of the Late James Joseph Mundell CBE and thence by descent, label verso for The Tib Lane Gallery (Manchester), the painting was gifted to Mr J Mundell by his aunt the artist José Christopherson (1914–2014) who was a friend of Lowry and a friend of Andras Kalman, Hungarian-British art dealer and former tennis-player who founded Crane Kalman Gallery in London. Kalman were instrumental in widening Lowry's audience to London collectors and the international market. Mr Mundell was a Manchester industrialist with business in Trafford Park, after his death in 2014, the painting was left to his widow and thence to the vendor after her death. Auctioneer's Note: 'The artist's acute sense of man's isolation in the scheme of things is perhaps best illustrated by his passion for the portrayal of lonely and eccentric characters. Derelicts and tramps, cripples, and bearded ladies, these are the very substance of his view of man as essentially an oddity, the Charlie Chaplin of creation. In this respect it is interesting to note that the comedian is one of the artist's great formative characters. Thus, the big boots, the bowlers and the umbrellas'. ('The Paintings of L S Lowry Oils & Watercolours' by Mervyn Levy, published by Book Club Associates, 1979). Comments: framed and glazed, please note that viewing of this painting can be arranged by appointment at any of our venues including Cardiff and Colwyn Bay in North Wales