L. S. Lowry

Laurence Stephen Lowry, né le 1er novembre 1887 dans Barrett Street, à Stretford, dans le Lancashire, et mort le 23 février 1976 à Glossop, dans le Derbyshire, est un peintre britannique.

Nombre de ses toiles et dessins représentent Salford et ses environs, où il vit et travaille durant 40 ans au 117 Station Road, en face de l'église Saint-Marc.


source et suite

The Tree, 1931




Market scene in a Northern Town, 1939




Saturday afternoon, 1941

Going to Work, 1943




The Mill, Pendlebury, 1943




The Old House, Grove Street, Salford, 1948

Lancashire Street, 1951




Coming from the match, 1959

Denis Thorpe


[…] one of Denis Thorpe’s who took gritty black and white photographs of the north of England and worked for the Guardian. Mr Lowry’s Hat and Coat – taken the day after the painter’s death -  shows two coats and hats hanging on pegs in a shadowed hallway, vaguely floral, a dado rail. On one of the coats the lining is facing outward and catching something of the light. The photograph’s about absence, an opened space and a stillnes flowing into it, homing in on the relics if someone who once was but is no more.


David Park, Voyage en territoire inconnu

c'est tellement atypique, mais c'est bien de lui...


The Sea, 1964

May Day, 1935

The Footbridge, 1946