Lowry's summer scene under hammer for £1.5m

AN LS Lowry painting of a summer’s day at a North West coastal resort is expected to fetch up to £1.5m when it goes under the hammer later this month.

- ASHLEY PEMBERTON & IMOGEN CLYDE-SMITH

The treasured artist’s much-loved 1947 work titled ‘Beach Scene, Lancashire’ is thought to depict a scene from Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool, where Lowry holidayed as a child.

It is one of five Lowry works being sold at the Sotheby’s auction in London on November 21 and comes with an estimate of £1-1.5m.

The other paintings are 1957 work Up North, his 1935 piece Road Over the Hill, Rebuilding of Rylands, Manchester, from 1929 and Street Stalls, painted in 1926.

The others are expected to fetch between £500,000-£1m between them in the auction.