Two "rare" paintings by LS Lowry have sold for a combined sum of more than £1.8m. A painting of Senhouse Street in Maryport, Cumbria, went under the hammer at Christie's auction house and sold ...

Two Lowry paintings sold at auction for £1.8m last month. Mitchells Auction One of the artworks in an oil painting of a scene believed to be of the Sir John Barrow's monument The artist ...

An unearthed archive of an art lover's interviews with an ageing LS Lowry have revealed he saw himself as "a drifter" who knew a lot of people but "never had a girl". Angela Bogg spent hours ...

And at that moment he decided to become an artist. His name is Lawrence Stephen Lowry. What was there in these sooty streets to make Lowry wish to spend his life amongst them, painting a world in ...

Eight of his pieces went under the hammer at Mitchells Auctions in Cockermouth, alongside two "extraordinary" Lake District paintings. Seven of the Lowry works sold separately for a combined ...

People have dressed as characters in an LS Lowry painting to recreate a scene he captured in 1938. The artist was a frequent visitor to Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, where an exhibition of ...

A new exhibition featuring some of the seascapes by the artist LS Lowry has opened. The Maltings in Berwick-upon-Tweed has been loaned items from The Lowry in Salford and private collections.

More than £45 million worth of items, including a Bach manuscript and an LS Lowry painting, have been donated to British ...