British Artist I. W. Roberts/L.S.Lowry/H. Knight/M. Frampton/E. Gowers/C.E.Power/ and E McKnight Kauffer (American-born)

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A paingint of a fairground by LS Lowry that not even the experts knew existed is set to make up to £1 million at auction. The work, dating from the Thirties when Lowry honed his distinctive matchstick-men style, has been in the same family for nearly 60 years and has never been detailed in a catalogue or exhibited until the owners presented it for sale

Laurence Stephen "L.S." Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist born in Stretford, Lancashire. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years and also Salford and its surrounding areas.

Four rarely-seen Lowrys bought by an art-collecting couple in the 1960s and 1970s are expected to fetch up to £370,000 at auction.

L. S. Lowry was an English artist known for his paintings of industrial England. Learn more about his life and work.

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Artwork page for ‘Dwelling, Ordsall Lane, Salford’, L.S. Lowry, 1927 Lowry was fascinated by buildings. For him they evoked the lives of their occupants. He felt that 'A country landscape is fine without people, but an industrial set without people is an empty shell. A street is not a street without people... it is as dead as mutton'. In the 1920s he frequently drew in Salford: 'There were special parts I liked, a bit Georgian, older than the rest. My favourite places were the houses built…

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK. Featuring over 200,000 oil paintings by some 38,000 artists.

Artwork page for ‘The Lake’, William Roberts, 1964 Roberts often drew inspiration for figure compositions from the areas of London where he lived. Between 1946/7 and 1980 he lived in St Mark's Crescent, near Regent's Park. Here, especially on Sundays and bank holidays, the artist observed people engaged in leisure activities on and around the lake. The importance to Roberts of the relationship between figures and narrative can be gleaned in his 'Comments', (June 1964): 'Several years ago…

Artwork page for ‘The Cinema’, William Roberts, 1920 on display at Tate Britain. Roberts’s early work was abstract and he joined Wyndham Lewis’s vorticist group. After the First World War, he made a name as the painter of everyday modern scenes. While film had been invented in the late 19th century, it reached new heights of sophistication and popularity in the 1920s, the age of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the rise of Hollywood. Movies were silent until 1927 and were accompanied by…

The Garden of Eden

William Roberts (1895-1980) Moving Day, 1968 ~ The sale of William Roberts's house and its contents