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The Fever Van - Signed Print by L S Lowry 1972 - MyArtBroker

The Fever Van
Signed Print

L S Lowry

£2,300-£3,500Value Indicator

$4,750-$7,000 Value Indicator

$4,250-$6,500 Value Indicator

¥22,000-¥35,000 Value Indicator

2,650-4,050 Value Indicator

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¥460,000-¥700,000 Value Indicator

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42 x 52cm, Edition of 700, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 700
Year: 1972
Size: H 42cm x W 52cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: July 2025
Value Trend:
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Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
July 2025
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
£1,700
£2,000
£2,520
June 2025
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
June 2025
Andrew Hartley Fine Arts
United Kingdom
April 2025
Golding, Young & Mawer, The Lincoln Auction Rooms
United Kingdom
February 2025
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
February 2025
Golding, Young & Mawer, The Lincoln Auction Rooms
United Kingdom
December 2024
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
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The value of L S Lowry’s The Fever Van (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,300 and £3,500. This lithograph print, created in 1972, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of 34 total sales since its entry to the market in September 2005. In the past 12 months, the artwork has sold 13 times with an average selling price of £2,476. Over the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £1,500 in September 2024 to £6,000 in December 2023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 700.

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Meaning & Analysis

This is a quote by Lowry, who painted this picture of an ambulance in 1935. The word ‘fever’ in the title refers to either diphtheria or scarlet fever, both rife in the small terraced houses around the industrial zones of Manchester. Fever vans were the bleak nicknames for the ambulance cars transporting sick individuals to the hospital. Using his typical colour pallet of blacks, greys and reds, Lowry was a master of composing figures to convey meaning, from milling industrial workers to leaping footballers, he identified the poetic in the mundane formation of people’s gatherings. His inclusion of the mill chimney in the painting could perhaps be a suggestion to the root cause of the spreading of the disease, this being the crowded conditions workers of the mill live in.

The Fever Van had a strange postscript when it was pitched as a Christmas Card by Harold Wilson, Lowry said “No, I am very sorry but I would like you to realise that I don’t wish to have any political association and I’m not giving permission.”

  • 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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