Pit Tragedy
Artist: L S Lowry (1887-1976)
Location: The Lowry
Date: 1919
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 51 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £8,750 (Total: £35,000)
Vendor: Carlisle Cathedral Chapter
Review number: 3956 (1993)
Provenance:
Carlisle Cathedral, Rev.Geoffrey Bennett.
Description:
Lowry deliberately devised his Chaplinesque figures as a conceptual image of Man and the underlying theme of his work is loneliness and Man's isolation. Here, powerfully, but without compassion, he depicts the human emotion surrounding a pit tragedy.
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