A staggering £3.2m has been paid for four Lowry paintings in a private auction.
Streamed from Christie’s Auction House’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale, last night (Tuesday 21 March), four of the Salford painters best works went under the hammer for an array of collectors.
Four of the paintings exceeded their lowest estimated total, with Mrs Swindells’ Picture, surpassing its highest estimated total by more than £50,000, selling for a total of £403,200.
Unsurprisingly, two of Lowry’s most revered works, Glasgow Docks (selling for nearly £1.4m) and The Railway Platform (£1.2m), swept the auction as two of the most expensive purchases of the evening.
The least expensive painting in the collection of auctioned works, A Lancashire Farm, passed the £200,000 mark, selling for £214,200. The Clock Tower failed to round-up bids, with no purchases across the board.
The Matchstick Men paintings were joined alongside works by David Hockney and Pauline Boty, with the highest bid of the evening honing to Dame Barbara Hepworth’s Pierced Form (Toledo), for £3.52m.
For more information about Lowry’s work, or to explore more of Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale’s, visit the website.
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