The Lowry theatre and art gallery on Salford Quays will relaunch its permanent display of work by LS Lowry next month – with more space than ever dedicated to the Salford artist.
LS Lowry: The Art and The Artist will open to the public on Saturday 13 June with new works on display including a rare 1959 painting of The Liver Buildings in Liverpool as well as Sea Trials at South Shields (1963), Newspaper Seller (1942) and The Lake (1971).
A preparatory drawing of Going to the Match (1953), bought by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) in 2014, will also be displayed alongside its world-famous namesake (itself on loan from the PFA) for the very first time.
Coming from the Mill (1930), Man Lying on a Wall (1957) and Portrait of Ann (1957), three of Lowry’s most-famous works, will remain pride of place in the exhibition.
Claire Stewart, curator of The Lowry Collection at The Lowry, said: “We’re proud to house the world’s largest public collection of Lowry work – and in extending the exhibition in this way we further strengthening that position as the home of LS Lowry.
“Some of the new works on display haven’t been seen in public for many years and we are grateful to the owners for the opportunity to present them to our gallery visitors. This new exhibition will also look at Lowry’s contemporaries and highlight what life was like in in Salford in the early 1900s.”
