A signed LS Lowry print showing a town’s now-vanished level crossing has sold at auction just a few miles away from the scene it depicts.<\/p>\n
The Level Crossing, Burton-on-Trent, was sold by Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Lichfield, Staffordshire.<\/p>\n
Lowry is believed to have been a frequent visitor to Burton and produced several pictures of scenes in the town.<\/p>\n
The painting, of the now lost landmark, sold for \u00a31,700 and features his distinctive style with a boxy depiction of a brewery train and matchstick figures.<\/p>\n
The physical level crossing on High Street has long since been decommissioned and removed, with the gates reportedly finding new use as fencing for a farm.<\/p>\n
“This was a lovely, clean, unfaded example of a lost local landmark in Lowry’s trademark style,” said auctioneer David Fergus.<\/p>\n
“Frequently packed with fascinating detail, Lowry’s distinctive images of industrial scenes and people have timeless appeal.”<\/p>\n
The Crossing pub \u2013 formerly The Blue Posts \u2013 can be seen to the right of the picture.<\/p>\n
The print was one from a limited edition of 850 published in 1973, with the original oil painting having being completed in 1961.<\/p>\n
The seller was from the Sutton Coldfield area and the print went to a private buyer in the UK, the auctioneers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A signed LS Lowry print showing a town’s now-vanished level crossing has sold at auction just a few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-108917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}