I heard an interview with Lowry once, at the end the interviewer asked him, "Does it upset you that your paintings are so expensive that ordinary people can't afford them?" Lowry said, "Not really, they didn't want 'em when they was cheap so why should they have 'em now?"
Staggered by the amount of people who don't understand Lowry's artwork. It is quintessential working class art with simplicity and industry at its core.
What I love about this is that the marshals Kept the NOSEY queue moving and did not allow it to become static hanging around gauping gauging, or gasping at the amount that it's worth, Both The presenter and the guest were in the eye of the storm, quite delightful to watch
I live close to where LS Lowry lived in Mottram, Greater Manchester. My mum used to tell me that she met Lowry one day on the bus going to Hyde, the nearby town. At the time I was a small baby and they got talking about me. When my mum stood up to get off the bus, Lowry gave her a sixpence, an old pre-decimal coin worth 2 1/2 pence.
Wow how fascinating!!!! Right up there with “I danced with a girl, who danced with boy, who danced with a girl, who danced with the Prince of Wales”!!!!!!!! I once sat next to Duckface from “Four Weddings and A Funeral”. However that didn’t make the national newspapers either!!!!!
I love Lowry. If you can I recommend going to the Lowry Gallery at Salford. I went a few years ago and was blown away by his sheer brilliance as an artist
I was brought up and went to school in Salford. There was an original Lowry on the wall outside the headmistress's office! I don't live too far away from the Lowry and love to pop in to see the exhibition. The pictures are almost like old friends. I was thrilled when Salford Council was able to buy Going to the Match.
I agree it’s a great gallery. I’m not one for much art but Lowry’s work really resonates with me. I use to work all around the UK and if I had an hour or so spare I’d visit as many galleries or museum’s just to see a Lowry. I’ve now seen a fair few of them.
No he gave a lady. The chauffeur was the wife of the man. She had passed away and the Lowrys were now owned by her husband. This woman - a new wife, a sister. Hmmmm
The thing I love about Lowry paintings is how every one I see I'm sure I've seen before as the subject matter is so similar. I absolutely love his style and everything about his paintings.
I genuinely mean - good for you. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. I do sometimes think that these “experts” favour an artist because some other expert has said that they are good - or a piece by that artist has made a lot of money. Personally, I’m not a fan. His paintings don’t speak to me positively in any way. In the same way as most abstracts, I just don’t see the merit or the skill in his pieces. Many others do and pay a lot of money for one of his pieces. That’s just personal choice
@@theofarmmanager267 I absolutely agree with you and it is very much your right to not like Lowry. I can understand why you don't like it, and I'm sure that the reasons you don't like it are probably the same reasons that I do; the simplicity, the lack of detail etc. For me, it just reminds me of my home and of a time gone by. I was born in Bury, just up the road from Salford and it stirs up feelings for me that I just adore.
@@theofarmmanager267That's all well and good and you're entitled to your opinion but Lowry's art is not Abstract. It's classified as Naïve Primitivism.
@@cornbeefPeople often say about art "the simplicity" and "the lack of detail" but it's anything but simple or easy. "I could do it" - No you can't. Plenty of painters never get spoken about let alone endure like Lowery. It's as if his style literally embodied the subjects he was painting, the mundane, the ordinary but categorically - not everyone can do that. They just can't, like it or loath it, his art will endure and increase in value every year.
I used to live in Lowry's old house in Maryport, in the NW of England, when i was a lad, in the 1970's. I remember the sand on Maryport beach burnt my feet, in the summer of 76.
He is one of mine also, these paintings had a story behind them, were as a tin of beans or a little girl with a balloon doesn't cut it with me, least to say the torture you would have from photographer's and newspapers, I'd go nuts. 😮.
This woman and that old fella who owned the painting have since passed on. This is 24 years old. I do love Antiques Roadshow for its video of people learning about art, etc. and discovering they have something important.
Im glad the family got that much for it. You can see its real worth in the subsequent sale. Better Auction more publicity.. Be worth well over a million now. Lowry just keeps on appreciating. Thats Art for you. Thanks for following it up.
A wonderful clip from Antiques roadshow which I've watched as a boy since the early 70's when it was called 'Going for a song" with the late great Arthur Negus. Apart from the antiques which bring great interest to me I also love watching and listening to the people and seeing them in the background.
Several decades ago I went into a very exclusive old art gallery boutique in London sort of by accident, just being nosey. Suddenly I was approached and asked what I was interested in, rather than say I was in no financial position to buy a crayon let alone an artwork, I muttered I was really after a Lowry, quite certain they didn’t have one and I could leave gracefuly . Unfortunately he said “Oh come this way Sir, into the back, we have several.” He lead me into another room and sat at a huge desk whilst he checked some inventory and all I could think was if I asked for a specific one, chances are they wouldn’t have it. So I said “In fact I was particular about Cowles Fish and Chip Shop, it’s rather small, not well known” (which I recalled was perhaps true). I stood in silence while he went through indexes and records and when he finally said “I’m so sorry, can’t seem to help you there.” I pretended to be somewhat disappointed and exited immediately.
My Dad used to watch Antiques Roadshow when I was a kid in the mid 80's, I HATED it, but there was no choice. We only had one TV. I don't mind it so much these days 😅
Just after songs of praise And before last of the summer wine, However if you'd have flipped over to ITV you coulda Watched Ciller black in Surprise Surprise, Or if you're allowed to stay up past your bedtime Hail and pace very naughty very naughty indeed Hail and pace Was Adults Only X rated television back then,
This was filmed in 1999. There is a post up above that says the family sold the painting via Christies in London for over £400,000 in 2013. I hope the old chap got to see some of it!
@@favouritemoon4133 Gentleman was 79 years old when his friend brought this to Roadshow in 1999. If painting sold in 2013 - and the gentleman was still alive -he would have been 92.
Lowry would be stunned! The cigarette packet is a beautiful little piece as well and a great memento of the man and his style. It'd also be worth quite a bit more these days.
There’s an old pub in the centre of Manchester that Lowry used to frequent. In the spot where he used to perch at the bar is a life size statue of him on a stool. It’s a bit freaky!
Same here I just saw this video and unfortunately we all know who copied from this particular painter and I cannot appreciate the painter without thinking the worse, especially after meeting you know who and feeling very uncomfortable 🥵 with him around the young children in the early 90's.
My favourite is one of his larger paintings from 1950, The Pond which I saw at The Tate, Liverpool when we were there a couple of years ago. I'm also rather fond of one he did while on holiday in my town in his later years, it's a scene just a few streets away from where I live.
I lived in Salford in the late 1960s (down by the docks) when I was a student at Salford University. Lord Napier Street, In fact (Just off Trafford Road and Ordsall Lane. Down by the docks) - I remember seeing some Lowry paintings at that time and being captivated. They' almost' represented the Salford I was actually living in! Though it was fast dying out by then. Right at the tail-end of Lowry's Salford, I guess. It's all been knocked down and paved over now. But at the time it was all row houses about a 120 years old. The ACTUAL Coronation Street was just on the other side of Ordsall Park. But the pub on the corner was NOT called 'The Rovers Return'. The view from our front bedroom window was almost identical to the original title shot for the TV Show. The area was all scheduled for demolition so the properties were worth almost nothing. Three of us (all students), actually BOUGHT a house - For £200! (We didn't own the land itself. It was actually owned by the Ordsall Estate and the house came with 99 year lease on the land). One bonus was that Old Trafford, Manchester United's football ground, was within walking distance! The area was due to be demolished in 5 years time when we bought it. Which is why it was so cheap. Two of us moved out in the early seventies but our friend lived in it until Salford Council finally bought us out around 1978. We actually got around £7,500 for it. Which we split three ways. I lived in it for three years, so my £120 initial investment ended up working out at around one pound a week. Pretty cheap accommodation, even then! So all round it turned out to be a pretty good investment.
Some of those terrorist houses in Salford Around the university were being sold for 500 to a thousand pounds in the mid 90s my first time I ever walked down that street I saw jail like bars on the windows of houses That were being lived in and their doors were like cell doors Iron rails gates covering the front door And people were living inside I was then told that the area was so crime Ridden that it was considered worser than some parts of Northern Ireland, Of course those houses which now surround Media city Have gone up considerably in price,🤫
Many years ago in a former life, my dad married a younger woman who new a certain Lord David Walston of Cambridgeshire, I am by no means posh, but we were invited to a shooting weekend at his big mansion, somewhere near Cambridge. ''Stick with it the punch line it's good "" During one of the two dinners we attended there, I was looking around the dining room rather in awe as I had never eaten in a room so grand, but on the wall near our table were two Lowry's I said to my dad ''Mum has those prints on the staircase at her flat" dad said ''they are not prints, they are the originals !
I would rather have Lowry paintings on my wall because they have a story behind them. There's a vandal out there painting cans of beans and children with balloons, his paintings might be famous but I don't think vandalizing somebody's property in the middle of the night is very responsible as well as all the reporter's covering your house so you don't have any privacy, that is just my opinion and I'm probably going to be outnumbered by the majority of people but I don't particularly care. 🖌️🎨.
My aunt had a Lowry and it was damaged back in the 60s during a house move, so the insurance paid out and it was thrown away. She cannot remember the payout but it was in the hundreds not thousands. We have it in the background in 3 of her photos
Too: A woman came to his house, driven the Rolls by a chauffer: who knocked at the door and said his mistress wanted 'a good picture' Lowry replied "I only do bad ones" and shut the door.
I think the fact that there was a song on top of the pops talking about matchstick men and matched it cats and dogs and the fact that everybody in Manchester wore a pair of wooden clogs did a lot For TS Lowry's image🤗
I bumped into Lowry in Cross St Manchester in 1969 during my first year at university. I recognised him from a documentary by Granada shown at that time on ITV ( "Mr Lowry" made by Leslie Woodhead in 1963). We had a chat for a few minutes and he confided that science was a far better profession than painting and he wouldnt recommend people to follow him.
A bit macabre but I visited his grave in southern cemetery in Manchester, quite a simple cross with his name etc but somebody had put an empty jam jam jar at the base and put a few small paint brushes in it.
Irrelevant…and for most people terrifying to have such a valuable piece of art. Terrifying of other people with bad intentions knowing it or for dropping it. It is a lot of responsibility having such a valuable masterpiece.
Oooh well spotted! I think she had a very nice engagement ring on too. I was too busy admiring her fingernails, which are in way better nick than my own! 😊😊😊
My auntie (from Rochdale) used to sit next to Lowry on a bus on the way back from work. He would be sketching with pencil and she was given a postcard-sized sketch which she kept. After her death, I helped to clear her house and looked carefully for this special memento. It had gone and we think that neighbours had seen it, realised its value and 'pinched it'. Never mind, eh?! There are probably many more where that came from!
Why not, a simple man who never took himself too seriously, he would be shocked his art is now so treasured. I think he would be troubled it was now for the super rich so distant from his roots. Whom he kind of resented.
This is interesting, because there is a very, very similar (but different in some details) scene which was painted the year after and sold at Christie's somewhere around 2010-11. I suspect that this was a preliminary work which he then refined further.
There is a major motion picture about Lowry starring Timothy Spall & Vanessa Redgrave. It's called Mrs Lowry & Son (2019). Very interesting and a very good movie about his life and art. Its a good lesson to anyone, you should follow your passions and see where it leads you in life.
When I was a kid we watched a programme called, 'Ask The Family' with Robert Robinson/Robertson? The two finalists could choose a prize, one chose a new living room carpet and the other chose a Lowrey. I thought it was a great choice at the time even though I don't like the paintings.
A friend of mine, sadly passesd, and a very well known artist, author & critic thought Lowry sentimental and not that talented. I know nothing so didn't argue, but I would happily swap some of my collection for a Lowry and all of it, (well maybe not all), for this one. I adore his work.
When was this broadcast? Surely not recently? 100k 😂 It’s a Lowry. And a nice one. All day long £500k, wouldn’t be surprised if it’s going for a mil soon.
Never understand it when yanks, who have murdered our language for years, mock English accents. Experts have said that English from hundreds of years ago sounded like the modern English of today's Northern England. Not like middle class southern English and certainly not sarthern USA drawl.
Cockney ! I am seeking legal advice. 😊 I live in North Lancashire in Northern England which isn't too far from being as far as you can get in England from Cockney East London. Cockney accent indeed ! 😢
The beauty of LS Lowery's paintings just like Alfred Wallis who was a fisherman who only started painting when he was seventy was the nativity. And from a connoisseurs point of view its immediately recognisable as only by Lowery's hand. That's what makes it valuable folks - not how easy you incorrectly think it is to paint.
"It's never been off the wall..." - priceless!
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I think she actually says "it's never been up the wall" - they've never even put it on display despite it being so valuable
@@realvatican she absolutely says "It's never been off the wall"
I heard an interview with Lowry once, at the end the interviewer asked him, "Does it upset you that your paintings are so expensive that ordinary people can't afford them?" Lowry said, "Not really, they didn't want 'em when they was cheap so why should they have 'em now?"
Because the Queen of England purchased one In the mid 60s So the price went through the roof
@@jamesbomd3503 Just the Queen Of England, was she?
@greglinski2208 Actually, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
@@jamesbomd3503 Yeah, and the only reason because it's nothing more than kindergarten grade work.
Thats worth more than 100k. Double it.
This is the only reason i watch antiques road show , nothing can beat the genuine shock when they get that big valuation.
I can't convey properly how much this delightful woman's reaction moves me.
"It's never been off the wall." Love this so much.
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And the good lady is then stressing, 'but how am I going to get it home! Can't carry it back in the old plastic shopping bag I used earlier!'
@@wildliferox2 Right? You can tell she's stressing. I hope they provide some kind of help to get folks home safely if they've come by themselves.
@@kuebbyOn my way to hang about outside the studio now 😆
This painting was sold by the family in 2013 for £421,875 then sold again in 2021 for £622,500, both times at Christie's in London
that was real money before Bidenomics
@@XNTN808oh groe up cultist
@@XNTN808 after Bidenomics that would only get you a loaf of bread.
@@XNTN808 Are you really that bloody thick??!!!
how wonderful
She's such a sweet lady. Love her and the painting
One of the nicest, but most genuine reactions I’ve ever seen! 😊
Check out the H.F.Farny painting on the American Antiques Roadshow.
What an absolute gem of a woman ❤
Now that's a genuinely good, positive reaction for her friend.
Staggered by the amount of people who don't understand Lowry's artwork. It is quintessential working class art with simplicity and industry at its core.
"Understand" ? What's to understand?
What I love about this is that the marshals Kept the NOSEY queue moving and did not allow it to become static hanging around gauping gauging, or gasping at the amount that it's worth,
Both The presenter and the guest were in the eye of the storm, quite delightful to watch
true. the rubbernecking was distracting and beginning to annoy me
I live close to where LS Lowry lived in Mottram, Greater Manchester. My mum used to tell me that she met Lowry one day on the bus going to Hyde, the nearby town. At the time I was a small baby and they got talking about me. When my mum stood up to get off the bus, Lowry gave her a sixpence, an old pre-decimal coin worth 2 1/2 pence.
That is an interesting story
Wow how fascinating!!!!
Right up there with
“I danced with a girl, who danced with boy, who danced with a girl, who danced with the Prince of Wales”!!!!!!!!
I once sat next to Duckface from “Four Weddings and A Funeral”.
However that didn’t make the national newspapers either!!!!!
That could so easily been a sketch on the bus ticket.
It was customary to give money to new borns for luck.
@@kerryannestevenson6099 It is customary to put newborns as a single word.
Lowry A Legend Full Stop Lovely Lady too👏👏👏
If you like this painting I'd love to introduce you to my 6 year old nephew, very close in talent and much cheaper?🖕🤣🖕
The sort of pleasant surprise we could ALL do with 🙂 and what a lovely lady to get one.
I love Lowry. If you can I recommend going to the Lowry Gallery at Salford. I went a few years ago and was blown away by his sheer brilliance as an artist
Have you ever seen the movie about Lowry starring Timothy Spall & Vanessa Redgrave? It's called Mrs Lowry & Son. Hope it's of interest to you.
I was brought up and went to school in Salford. There was an original Lowry on the wall outside the headmistress's office!
I don't live too far away from the Lowry and love to pop in to see the exhibition. The pictures are almost like old friends. I was thrilled when Salford Council was able to buy Going to the Match.
@@damienkearns3654That was a lovely film.
I agree it’s a great gallery.
I’m not one for much art but Lowry’s work really resonates with me.
I use to work all around the UK and if I had an hour or so spare I’d visit as many galleries or museum’s just to see a Lowry.
I’ve now seen a fair few of them.
Oh come on they were childish doodles
I love this clip the Women’s reaction to the valuation is classic, what a kind man Lowery was to give the guy one of his paintings.
No he gave a lady. The chauffeur was the wife of the man. She had passed away and the Lowrys were now owned by her husband. This woman - a new wife, a sister. Hmmmm
The thing I love about Lowry paintings is how every one I see I'm sure I've seen before as the subject matter is so similar. I absolutely love his style and everything about his paintings.
Yes, love the simplicity.
I genuinely mean - good for you. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. I do sometimes think that these “experts” favour an artist because some other expert has said that they are good - or a piece by that artist has made a lot of money.
Personally, I’m not a fan. His paintings don’t speak to me positively in any way. In the same way as most abstracts, I just don’t see the merit or the skill in his pieces. Many others do and pay a lot of money for one of his pieces. That’s just personal choice
@@theofarmmanager267 I absolutely agree with you and it is very much your right to not like Lowry. I can understand why you don't like it, and I'm sure that the reasons you don't like it are probably the same reasons that I do; the simplicity, the lack of detail etc. For me, it just reminds me of my home and of a time gone by. I was born in Bury, just up the road from Salford and it stirs up feelings for me that I just adore.
@@theofarmmanager267That's all well and good and you're entitled to your opinion but Lowry's art is not Abstract. It's classified as Naïve Primitivism.
@@cornbeefPeople often say about art "the simplicity" and "the lack of detail" but it's anything but simple or easy. "I could do it" - No you can't. Plenty of painters never get spoken about let alone endure like Lowery. It's as if his style literally embodied the subjects he was painting, the mundane, the ordinary but categorically - not everyone can do that. They just can't, like it or loath it, his art will endure and increase in value every year.
Sitting in Australia with 4 Lowry prints of my office wall. Keeps me grounded
Treasure them, it's better than looking at a tin of beans or a little girl with a balloon anyday. 🎨🖌️.
@@Unknownlll123 Of course there are other paintings you could have compared them to.
Delightful artwork. Even more delightful reaction!
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Wonderful story! So well deserved by such a lovely family!
... "it's never been off the wall..." Love it!!
I used to live in Lowry's old house in Maryport, in the NW of England, when i was a lad, in the 1970's. I remember the sand on Maryport beach burnt my feet, in the summer of 76.
The Summer of 1976 was one very long hot Summer. Everything that could go wrong went wrong that Summer.
but no climate crisis...lol@@marymccormick8166
sure you did
@@mercenary1881 I know I did. I don't need to prove anything, or seek any validation. i KNOW i did. :)
I have never read a more nostalgic sentence in my life😂
Wonderful, no words are needed for the feelings in this clip
This show is great! You never know what you’re gonna see 👩🏻🏫👏🏻🥰‼️
Love Lowry's paintings ❤
It's so wonderful how that Lady has become a big part of the story of that painting...
Stunning. Lowry is one of my favourite artists.
You are blind of course , must be terrible to have a problem like that.
Could be, but at least I'm not a rude tit of course. Must be terrible to suffer a problem like that. @@raybrooking8084
@@raybrooking8084twit
He is one of mine also, these paintings had a story behind them, were as a tin of beans or a little girl with a balloon doesn't cut it with me, least to say the torture you would have from photographer's and newspapers, I'd go nuts. 😮.
@@Unknownlll123 Perfectly put.
Delightful painting. Hope it ends up in a public or even better, the Lowry gallery's collection.
This woman and that old fella who owned the painting have since passed on. This is 24 years old. I do love Antiques Roadshow for its video of people learning about art, etc. and discovering they have something important.
I love that painting. It’s wonderful.💕📝🎨
So do I, give me a Lowery anyday instead of a tin of beans or a little girl holding a balloon. 🖌️🎨.
Im glad the family got that much for it. You can see its real worth in the subsequent sale. Better Auction more publicity.. Be worth well over a million now. Lowry just keeps on appreciating. Thats Art for you. Thanks for following it up.
Was wondering the same myself, great investment if you have a spare million gathering dust.
It reminds me very much of my home town of Stockport, a place he visited and painted of course.
I thought that too. Petersgate heading towards the air raid shelters, near to the old Three Shires (that was a great pub!)
ive got old stockport paintings ( all minors nowt valuable ) of the old market etc
A wonderful clip from Antiques roadshow which I've watched as a boy since the early 70's when it was called 'Going for a song" with the late great Arthur Negus. Apart from the antiques which bring great interest to me I also love watching and listening to the people and seeing them in the background.
Going for a Song was a completely different programme. It’s like saying you watched Jamie Oliver but it was with Fanny Craddock in the 70’s. 😂
Several decades ago I went into a very exclusive old art gallery boutique in London sort of by accident, just being nosey. Suddenly I was approached and asked what I was interested in, rather than say I was in no financial position to buy a crayon let alone an artwork, I muttered I was really after a Lowry, quite certain they didn’t have one and I could leave gracefuly . Unfortunately he said “Oh come this way Sir, into the back, we have several.” He lead me into another room and sat at a huge desk whilst he checked some inventory and all I could think was if I asked for a specific one, chances are they wouldn’t have it. So I said “In fact I was particular about Cowles Fish and Chip Shop, it’s rather small, not well known” (which I recalled was perhaps true). I stood in silence while he went through indexes and records and when he finally said “I’m so sorry, can’t seem to help you there.” I pretended to be somewhat disappointed and exited immediately.
This is hilarious
😂😂😂
and today on things that never happened...
Lol
Probably all fake
My Dad used to watch Antiques Roadshow when I was a kid in the mid 80's, I HATED it, but there was no choice. We only had one TV. I don't mind it so much these days 😅
It actually is a pretty good television show
Just after songs of praise And before last of the summer wine, However if you'd have flipped over to ITV you coulda Watched Ciller black in Surprise Surprise,
Or if you're allowed to stay up past your bedtime Hail and pace very naughty very naughty indeed Hail and pace Was Adults Only X rated television back then,
WOW‼️ That’s amazing! That old fella is gonna be shocked when he hears what his painting is worth.
This was filmed in 1999. There is a post up above that says the family sold the painting via Christies in London for over £400,000 in 2013. I hope the old chap got to see some of it!
@@favouritemoon4133 … Wow‼️ Cha-Ching 💲💲💲💲‼️ I do hope the old man got to see some of that money too.
@@favouritemoon4133 Gentleman was 79 years old when his friend brought this to Roadshow in 1999.
If painting sold in 2013 - and the gentleman was still alive -he would have been 92.
@@WoodlandDance Thanks for the info!
As I've got older I've started to appreciate Lowry
It’s amazing what’s on people’s walls and in their attics. An expat watching in Florida.
*lofts 😉
Jeremy: Yes, BEFORE you sell a property, and AFTER you've bought one, CHECK THE ATTIC ‼️
"Oh very shy" = "Buried in the basement"
_"It's never been off the wall"_
Wonderful.
No but the price has,£££££,
Lovely. Just lovely. And the painting is not too shabby either.
Lowry would be stunned! The cigarette packet is a beautiful little piece as well and a great memento of the man and his style. It'd also be worth quite a bit more these days.
Just nipping up into the loft for a rummage 😉😊
Wow! Speechless!!
❤ a beautiful painting..love lowry
Underrated artist
There’s an old pub in the centre of Manchester that Lowry used to frequent. In the spot where he used to perch at the bar is a life size statue of him on a stool. It’s a bit freaky!
sams chop house...very nice pub it is to..I used to also frequent when I worked in manchester and that statue is indeed there..waiting for his pint !
Thanks for calling out the name, Matthew. I couldn't remember it! Totally agree, lovely, old pub.@@matthewgreenwood5074
Not to the landlord or landlady Because that brings in the tourist dollars believe you me🤑💰💸
Simply joyous, makes your heart smile.
“It’s never been off the wall!” Bless!! Gotta love Northerners ❤️❤️❤️❤️
It always makes me smile when it's something they've inherited but don't like and they say "it's been under the bed for the last 20 years."
Lovely little painting, but unfortunately now I'm going to have "Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs" stuck in my head all day again.
Ditto...i'm old and remember that song from my childhood
'And he painted ... ' - enjoy the repetitive agony.
They wore pyrotechnic footwear in that area back in the day.
@@0venchip And no one suffered from obesity. All slim and healthy children and adults ... or skinny and malnourished?
Same here I just saw this video and unfortunately we all know who copied from this particular painter and I cannot appreciate the painter without thinking the worse, especially after meeting you know who and feeling very uncomfortable 🥵 with him around the young children in the early 90's.
ive dealt in Lowrys for a long time, the picture now would be worth over a Million.
No you haven't dealt in Lowrys 🤣🤣
He meant lavvies .
600 k pounds is over a million USD, so not sure what you're laughing at.@@jmcgrath4034
Lolol@@pauls3204
I love Lowry ❤
My school art teacher knew Lowry as they were neighbours. He said that he helped Lowry burn a stack of old paintings.
The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
lovely story and genius painting.
Im sure their was a lowry in my primary school assembly hall. This was 1964. i loved looking at it
Holy God. I'm a Brummie, but the power of this...
4:30 - Even Sooty & Sweep couldn't believe it.
😂
That made me lol 😂
😂😂😂
XD!!
I love these kind of finds.
"It's never been off the wall." Bless her.
My favourite is one of his larger paintings from 1950, The Pond which I saw at The Tate, Liverpool when we were there a couple of years ago. I'm also rather fond of one he did while on holiday in my town in his later years, it's a scene just a few streets away from where I live.
I lived in Salford in the late 1960s (down by the docks) when I was a student at Salford University.
Lord Napier Street, In fact (Just off Trafford Road and Ordsall Lane. Down by the docks) - I remember seeing some Lowry paintings at that time and being captivated. They' almost' represented the Salford I was actually living in! Though it was fast dying out by then. Right at the tail-end of Lowry's Salford, I guess.
It's all been knocked down and paved over now. But at the time it was all row houses about a 120 years old. The ACTUAL Coronation Street was just on the other side of Ordsall Park. But the pub on the corner was NOT called 'The Rovers Return'.
The view from our front bedroom window was almost identical to the original title shot for the TV Show.
The area was all scheduled for demolition so the properties were worth almost nothing. Three of us (all students), actually BOUGHT a house - For £200!
(We didn't own the land itself. It was actually owned by the Ordsall Estate and the house came with 99 year lease on the land).
One bonus was that Old Trafford, Manchester United's football ground, was within walking distance!
The area was due to be demolished in 5 years time when we bought it. Which is why it was so cheap. Two of us moved out in the early seventies but our friend lived in it until Salford Council finally bought us out around 1978. We actually got around £7,500 for it. Which we split three ways.
I lived in it for three years, so my £120 initial investment ended up working out at around one pound a week. Pretty cheap accommodation, even then!
So all round it turned out to be a pretty good investment.
Some of those terrorist houses in Salford Around the university were being sold for 500 to a thousand pounds in the mid 90s my first time I ever walked down that street I saw jail like bars on the windows of houses That were being lived in and their doors were like cell doors Iron rails gates covering the front door And people were living inside I was then told that the area was so crime Ridden that it was considered worser than some parts of Northern Ireland,
Of course those houses which now surround Media city Have gone up considerably in price,🤫
Many years ago in a former life, my dad married a younger woman who new a certain Lord David Walston of Cambridgeshire, I am by no means posh, but we were invited to a shooting weekend at his big mansion, somewhere near Cambridge. ''Stick with it the punch line it's good ""
During one of the two dinners we attended there, I was looking around the dining room rather in awe as I had never eaten in a room so grand, but on the wall near our table were two Lowry's
I said to my dad ''Mum has those prints on the staircase at her flat" dad said ''they are not prints, they are the originals !
Saw the movie..! He was GREAT!!! 💙💙💙💙💙🦩✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
I would rather have Lowry paintings on my wall because they have a story behind them. There's a vandal out there painting cans of beans and children with balloons, his paintings might be famous but I don't think vandalizing somebody's property in the middle of the night is very responsible as well as all the reporter's covering your house so you don't have any privacy, that is just my opinion and I'm probably going to be outnumbered by the majority of people but I don't particularly care. 🖌️🎨.
I have a signed print of his of 'going to the match', which I recently had appraised and was told probably around 3k.
My aunt had a Lowry and it was damaged back in the 60s during a house move, so the insurance paid out and it was thrown away. She cannot remember the payout but it was in the hundreds not thousands. We have it in the background in 3 of her photos
Unfortunate indeed ,
No crystal balls...
I like Lowry, as a man. I belive he turned down a knighthood - wise man.
Too: A woman came to his house, driven the Rolls by a chauffer: who knocked at the door and said his mistress wanted 'a good picture' Lowry replied "I only do bad ones" and shut the door.
It amazes me how such simple painting can be worth so much.
It’s the artist and it’s his perspective of working class Northern England
I think it's the love that goes into them as well as the dedication. 🎨🖌️.
I think the fact that there was a song on top of the pops talking about matchstick men and matched it cats and dogs and the fact that everybody in Manchester wore a pair of wooden clogs did a lot For TS Lowry's image🤗
I bumped into Lowry in Cross St Manchester in 1969 during my first year at university. I recognised him from a documentary by Granada shown at that time on ITV ( "Mr Lowry" made by Leslie Woodhead in 1963). We had a chat for a few minutes and he confided that science was a far better profession than painting and he wouldnt recommend people to follow him.
He used to have a studio just downstairs from my office in the Peel building in Salford
I just love this clip . I bet that painting would have to be worth more than 100,000 pounds now
magic stuff
I love this painting the littke dog is fab
A bit macabre but I visited his grave in southern cemetery in Manchester, quite a simple cross with his name etc but somebody had put an empty jam jam jar at the base and put a few small paint brushes in it.
That was so sweet. 🎨🖌️.
"It's never been up on the wall" she's a diamond that lady.
The womans reaction, suggests to me that She was infact the chauffeur of Lowry back in the day.
"It's never been off the wall" she said mate.
@jonstrummer6930 I stand corrected. That is what she said. She's still a diamond though.
@stevenweasel2678 you could be right.
Good review nice lady to 😊
Wonderful painting. No way i'd sell any of that. Wouldnt mind owning an Adolphe Valette too.
The lady o gosh😂 paramedics would have to pick me up off the floor
Satisfying to know it was just hung up in some random home.
I remember as a kid in the early 70s he gave me a drawing but my school kept it.
It's a beautiful painting, I love Lowry's work. The monetary value in many ways is irrelevant.🙂
Irrelevant…and for most people terrifying to have such a valuable piece of art. Terrifying of other people with bad intentions knowing it or for dropping it. It is a lot of responsibility having such a valuable masterpiece.
Yeah right. Pity it turned out to be a fake.
@@mariemccann5895 that "fake" sold for £622,500 in 2021 - seek help
I love them as well, give me a Lowery anyday instead of a tin of beans or a little girl holding a balloon. 🎨🖌️.
Extraordinary!
Warmed my heart
WHAT IS THAT WOMANS WATCH ⌚️ 😮😮😮😮😮 DOUBLE CROWN, NOW THAT IS ALSO SOOOO SPECIAL!! 😂😂😂❤❤❤😂😂😂❤❤❤😂😂😂❤❤❤
Oooh well spotted! I think she had a very nice engagement ring on too. I was too busy admiring her fingernails, which are in way better nick than my own! 😊😊😊
I also spotted that sparkling gold tooth!
My auntie (from Rochdale) used to sit next to Lowry on a bus on the way back from work. He would be sketching with pencil and she was given a postcard-sized sketch which she kept. After her death, I helped to clear her house and looked carefully for this special memento. It had gone and we think that neighbours had seen it, realised its value and 'pinched it'. Never mind, eh?! There are probably many more where that came from!
Why not, a simple man who never took himself too seriously, he would be shocked his art is now so treasured. I think he would be troubled it was now for the super rich so distant from his roots. Whom he kind of resented.
This is interesting, because there is a very, very similar (but different in some details) scene which was painted the year after and sold at Christie's somewhere around 2010-11.
I suspect that this was a preliminary work which he then refined further.
There is a major motion picture about Lowry starring Timothy Spall & Vanessa Redgrave. It's called Mrs Lowry & Son (2019). Very interesting and a very good movie about his life and art. Its a good lesson to anyone, you should follow your passions and see where it leads you in life.
With a little work this conversation could become a Little Britain sketch 😂
This is brilliant stuff wow
When I was a kid we watched a programme called, 'Ask The Family' with Robert Robinson/Robertson?
The two finalists could choose a prize, one chose a new living room carpet and the other chose a Lowrey.
I thought it was a great choice at the time even though I don't like the paintings.
🎶"And he painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs" 🎶 Brian & Michael - Lowry's Song - Number 1 Hit in 1978
A friend of mine, sadly passesd, and a very well known artist, author & critic thought Lowry sentimental and not that talented. I know nothing so didn't argue, but I would happily swap some of my collection for a Lowry and all of it, (well maybe not all), for this one. I adore his work.
Agree with your friend, honestly. The man was completely overrated.
Everybody's a critic.
Lowri worked collecting rent for my husband great grandmother the places are what he visited
I wonder was the video for the Oasis song " The Masterplan" inspired by this painting?
When was this broadcast? Surely not recently?
100k 😂 It’s a Lowry. And a nice one. All day long £500k, wouldn’t be surprised if it’s going for a mil soon.
Easily. 2021 it went for £600k
Give me Lowry any day, it's better than having a painting of a tin of beans on your wall. 🎨🖌️.
Goodness it literally says in the description, 1999. So no not recently
Nice to see roger daltrey bringing a Lowry in for his mate
hahahaha!
eh?
"Eets nevah been off da wool!" 😂
Regional accents dude. Get over it
@@margin606 No shit
Never understand it when yanks, who have murdered our language for years, mock English accents. Experts have said that English from hundreds of years ago sounded like the modern English of today's Northern England. Not like middle class southern English and certainly not sarthern USA drawl.
@@mikewilliamson7246 I just read your comment and it had a cockney accent! 😂
Cockney ! I am seeking legal advice. 😊
I live in North Lancashire in Northern England which isn't too far from being as far as you can get in England from Cockney East London.
Cockney accent indeed !
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The beauty of LS Lowery's paintings just like Alfred Wallis who was a fisherman who only started painting when he was seventy was the nativity. And from a connoisseurs point of view its immediately recognisable as only by Lowery's hand. That's what makes it valuable folks - not how easy you incorrectly think it is to paint.