The Brewery, City Road Salford

Pencil on Paper

Provenance: The Piccadilly Gallery, London, where acquired by C. Bernstein Esq. Sir Robert Fraser and thence by family descent.

Private Collection, UK

Signed
Size (inches) : 14 (h) x 10 (w)
Size (cm) : 35.56 (h) x 25.4 (w)
Frame Size (inches) : 24.5 (h) x 20.5 (w)
Frame Size (cm) : 62.23 (h) x 52.07 (w)
The Brewery, City Road Salford
The Brewery, City Road Salford
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Lowry is famous for his depictions of the industrial North. He was a pioneer for drawing scenes of British life at the time, he drew exactly what he saw, in his own words 'I draw what i see, nothing more, nothing less'. 'The Brewery' is an extremley important work, it has the three figures and the famous black dog - that appears in many of Lowry's drawings and of courrse the towering building of a Brewery in City Road, Salford that has since been demolished. 

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Lowry is famous for his depictions of the industrial North. He was a pioneer for drawing scenes of British life at the time, he drew exactly what he saw, in his own words 'I draw what i see, nothing more, nothing less'. 'The Brewery' is an extremley important work, it has the three figures and the famous black dog - that appears in many of Lowry's drawings and of courrse the towering building of a Brewery in City Road, Salford that has since been demolished.