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Our Town Signed Print

Our Town

L S Lowry

Our Town
Signed Print

Name: Our Town
Brand: L S Lowry
Rating: 4.9 (217 reviews)

L S Lowry

£3,300-£4,950

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$6,500-$9,500 Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,500 Value Indicator

¥30,000-¥45,000 Value Indicator

€3,850-€6,000 Value Indicator

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$4,150-$6,000 Value Indicator

8% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 850

Size: H 42cm x W 62cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of L S Lowry's Our Town (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,100 and £4,650. This lithograph print has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £3,800 across 1 sale. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,200 in March 2019 to £5,000 in December 2019. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 17 times since its initial sale in October 2006. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 850.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Artwork
September 2023	Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print
May 2022	Hutchinson Scott Auctioneers - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print
December 2021	Wilson55 - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print
May 2021	Wilson55 - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print
April 2021	Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print
April 2021	Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print
June 2020	Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom	Our Town - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

The original painting of Our Town is currently on view at Touchstones in Rochdale. This work is emblematic of Lowry’s style that blends realism and landscapes from his own memory with imaginary elements and subtly humorous features. It was for this reason that he called them dreamscapes. As seen on this painting, he expresses the bleak nature of urban, modern reality through a unique, limited colour pallet, only using black, red, flake white and yellow ochre. Touches of humour can be detected in this painting in the form of the three characters standing out from the crowd of people, one being particularly fat. Lowry is a master of creating compositions of a large crowd, capturing different moments of individual movement and manufacturing an entire narrative that unfolds around the urban mass.

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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