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An Industrial Town - Signed Print by L S Lowry 1944 - MyArtBroker

An Industrial Town
Signed Print

L S Lowry

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44 x 60cm, Edition of 500, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 500
Year: 1944
Size: H 44cm x W 60cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2025
Value Trend:
-14% AAGR

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2025
Rogers Jones Company, Cardiff
United Kingdom
$900
$1,050
$1,300
June 2024
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
May 2024
Cheffins
United Kingdom
May 2024
Bellmans, Sussex
United Kingdom
October 2023
Gorringes
United Kingdom
July 2023
Capes Dunn
United Kingdom
June 2023
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
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The value of L S Lowry's An Industrial Town (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,250 and £1,900. This lithograph print, created in 1944, has an auction history of 33 total sales since its entry to the market in March 2005. In the last 12 months, the artwork has sold once, with an average selling price of £800. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £800 in April 2025 to £4,200 in April 2021. The average annual growth rate of this work is -14%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 500.

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Meaning & Analysis

Lowry shows a great variety of people in his landscape, groups of young children, families pushing prams and elderly people in their winter coats, coming together to form a generalised impression of the industrial city. There is a lake depicted at the bottom right hand side of the print, showing people with their rowing boats out indicating that this is a scene of the public in their leisure time. Though not explicitly political, Lowry’s work is distinct in the way it shows images of working class people when they are not at work.

Elements of this print convey a sense of realism, but like many of Lowry’s works, this is a composite image. Lowry’s paintings were fundamentally composed from a variety of repeated motifs, growing increasingly sentimental as his career went on. The artist said, “I hadn’t the slightest idea of what I was going to put in the canvas when I started the picture, but it eventually came out as you see it. This is the way I like working best.”

  • Born in 1887, L. S. Lowry was a key figure in 20th century British painting. Known for his distinctive painterly style and 'matchstick men', Lowry aimed to put industry on the map by typically focusing on scenes from his hometown in the North West of England. The naivety of his art drew criticism, yet has stood the test of time with the artist becoming a household name. Lowry has consistently performed in the secondary market, with works such as Going To The Match achieving a value of £2,919,000 in 2021 and the editioned prints remaining highly sought after.

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