Name: Francis Terrace
Brand: L S Lowry
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of L S Lowry's Francis Terrace (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,950 and £6,000. This lithograph print, created in 1969, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an auction history of six total sales since its entry to the market in March 2005. In the last 12 months, there have been no sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £5,500 in March 2024 to £5,500 in March 2024. The average return to the seller is £4,675 and the edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Meaning & Analysis

Francis Terrace is a lithograph print from 1969 by L. S. Lowry that shows a sketch of a street close with terraced houses on either side and a smokestack in the background. This is a typical scene of working class life, with children playing with one another on the brick road between the houses and their parents watching over them from their front doors.

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Speaking of why he was drawn to depicting scenes, Lowry wrote to a friend, “To my loss, country lanes have been foreign to me, for quite a while past, for alas my recreation seems to have developed into drifting amongst all the back streets etc I can come across.”

Lowry was interested in the people whose lives he was trying to capture, and created over 8,000 drawings like this one, recording the everyday nuances that he saw around him. Working as a rent collector during the day, and an artist at night, Lowry had a unique perspective into the lives of working class people in the North East of England. He was not working class himself but came across poverty everyday as he collected rent from those who could not afford it, hence why he was drawn to capturing this subject matter.