Lowry painting

I’ve got this one up at my flat (not an original that went for £5.6m eleven years ago, mind):

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I prefer it to the Bolton one.

I had the canvas print of it and went to a framing shop to get it stretched and framed. I went back a week later to pick it up and said to the fella ‘I’ve come to collect the Lowry I brought in to be framed last week’. He looked me up and down, looked me in the face in disbelief and paused for a few seconds… then he asked if I had any ID on me or any documentation that I’d brought from the gallery. I was somewhat confused at this point.

Turns out there was a real Lowry original sketch that the Lowry gallery had taken to them to frame and it was also being picked up on that day. They got it out to show me (after we’d both realised mine wasn’t the real Lowry!), when I say sketch it really was just a little pencil sketch of a boat on the sea… even that was worth £3k.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
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As a Salfordian I think I can give a honest opinion as a pile of his work was done in Salford. His work is crap.
There is a lot pretentious bollocks talked by wanker about art and artists, I`m just calling crap out for being crap.


rk RothkoNo. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)1951$186 million$217 million2014
DescriptionPrivate sale, 2014. Seller: Yves Bouvier. Buyer: Dmitri Rybolovlev.
Evidently overpaid, it was one of Rybolovlev’s acquisitions via Yves Bouvier.
Image © Artists Rights Society, New York
ImageMark Rothko - No. 6 Violet Green and Red - 1951 - Oil on canvas
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
I’ve got this one up at my flat (not an original that went for £5.6m eleven years ago, mind):

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I prefer it to the Bolton one.

I had the canvas print of it and went to a framing shop to get it stretched and framed. I went back a week later to pick it up and said to the fella ‘I’ve come to collect the Lowry I brought in to be framed last week’. He looked me up and down, looked me in the face in disbelief and paused for a few seconds… then he asked if I had any ID on me or any documentation that I’d brought from the gallery. I was somewhat confused at this point.

Turns out there was a real Lowry original sketch that the Lowry gallery had taken to them to frame and it was also being picked up on that day. They got it out to show me (after we’d both realised mine wasn’t the real Lowry!), when I say sketch it really was just a little pencil sketch of a boat on the sea… even that was worth £3k.
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That’s a great story.
 
I wouldn't mind a print of, "Going to work".
Mather and Platt at the corner of Briscoe lane and Ten Acres which is was in spitting distance of both my Grans houses and one of them worked there when I was a nipper.

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Lowry born on 1st November 1887.
Number 2 Manchester City v Sheffield Utd.
Would love to see this but a private dealer bought it.
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The Beautiful Game: A Guide To Lowry’s Football Matches | MyArtbroker

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