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Man Holding Child - Signed Print by L S Lowry 1974 - MyArtBroker

Man Holding Child
Signed Print

L S Lowry

£1,850-£2,800Value Indicator

$3,800-$6,000 Value Indicator

$3,450-$5,000 Value Indicator

¥18,000-¥27,000 Value Indicator

€2,150-€3,250 Value Indicator

$20,000-$30,000 Value Indicator

¥370,000-¥560,000 Value Indicator

$2,500-$3,800 Value Indicator

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45 x 71cm, Edition of 350, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 350

Year: 1974

Size: H 45cm x W 71cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: February 2025

Value Trend:

2% AAGR

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
February 2025
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
$1,900
$2,250
$2,850
December 2024
Sworders
United Kingdom
September 2023
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
March 2023
Andrew Hartley Fine Arts
United Kingdom
September 2022
Gorringes
United Kingdom
April 2021
Sworders
United Kingdom
February 2021
Wilson55
United Kingdom
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The value of L S Lowry's Man Holding Child (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,850 and £2,800. This lithograph print, created in 1974, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work has an auction history of 14 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2006. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £1,370, with a total of 2 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £940 in December 2024 to £2,400 in September 2023. The average annual growth rate is 2%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 350.

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Meaning & Analysis

Lowry shows a great variety of people in this print; children playing, ladies chatting to one another, elderly people in their winter coats, and even some dogs in the very foreground of the image, all well-known motifs used by the artist in his paintings. Though rendered without much detail, each figure appears distinctly unique with their own character traits. Man Holding Child is a print that is indicative of Lowry’s fascination with people and their unique qualities or quirks, prompting the viewer to look at the human presence in his famous landscape paintings differently.

Much like many of Lowry’s scenes, this print is depicted in a limited palette of muted colours. Lowry often claimed to use just five colours in his paintings, vermillion, ivory black, Prussian blue, yellow ochre and flake white. By only using white in the background and stripping the scene of any context, this print forces the viewer to contemplate the figures in the image, who they are and why Lowry has chosen to paint them.

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