Mill Scene
Mill Scene
Signed Print
L. S. Lowry
£2,350-£3,550 VALUE (EST.)
$4,550-$7,000 VALUE (EST.)
$3,950-$6,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥21,000-¥30,000 VALUE (EST.)
€2,750-€4,100 VALUE (EST.)
$23,000-$35,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥430,000-¥650,000 VALUE (EST.)
$2,900-$4,400 VALUE (EST.)
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Lithograph, 1972
Signed Print Edition of 750
H 31cm x W 40cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print | |||
| March 2023 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print | |||
| December 2022 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print | |||
| October 2022 | Wilson55 - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print | |||
| September 2022 | Ewbank's - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print | |||
| July 2021 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print | |||
| April 2021 | Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh - United Kingdom | Mill Scene - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
In Mill Scene, dogs, figures, lampposts and smoke all bend against the inhospitable landscape, evoking a stormy day outside the dark Satanic Mill. The ominous atmosphere of the painting is reinforced by the artist’s gloomy, reduced colour palette. Lowry only used five colours: Ivory Black, Vermillion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre and Flake White. Despite the subject matter and composition, the scene doesn’t necessarily evoke a depressing atmosphere - there is beauty in the bleakness and a sense of vibrancy through the mass of people roaming the industrial city streets. The buildings jump out in brick red from a white smoggy sky, smoke rises from the chimneys, and there is a faded city looming in the background. Lowry famously found his subject after overlooking and even despising the scenes he came to obsessively depict. Outside a mill just like the one in Mill Scene he said, “I watched this scene – which I’d look at many times without seeing – with rapture.”
