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...Tuesday’s usual quiz night at Sam’s Chop House, where painter LS Lowry was a regular, went ahead via Facebook Live. At one point, over 500 people were taking part — 10 times the usual number....
...Sir Rocco sold Le Richemont in Geneva and the Lowry in Manchester to help pay off debt. “Now we are in a position to start moving forward,” Sir Rocco said....
...npg.org.uk, 020 7306 0055, to October 26 Sea Change: The Art of England’s North West Coast, The Atkinson, Southport The changing face of the northwest coastline through tourism and industrialisation: LS Lowry...
...… ART Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life , by TJ Clark and Anne Wagner, Tate Publishing, RRP£19.99 This smart volume accompanying Tate’s recent and radical re-evaluation of Lowry is delightfully...
...In 1984 Roger Ulrich, then a professor at Texas A&M University, discovered that looking at plants inspires a positive response in our bodies....
...As a result, he has been able to decorate his house in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester and his riverside apartment in south London with works by the likes of Edouard Vuillard, LS Lowry and Andy...
...So, the return to conservatism and reign of fear reminded me of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire....
...High-profile figures include Roger Lowry, head of government affairs at RBS, Neil Sherlock, head of public affairs at KPMG, and Ian Wright, head of communications at Diageo....
...Julia Fawcett, chief executive, Lowry arts centre. Michael Hart, director, Ffestinog Railway Company. Andrew Herbert, managing director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge....
...So rare Bloomsbury artists, such as Duncan Grant (his “The Room with a View” is available at Richard Green for a six-figure sum) and Roger Fry (at Belgrave Gallery) jostle alongside Vorticists such as William...
...At the other extreme, big dealers such as Richard Green and Crane Kalman will bring paintings by LS Lowry priced nearer £1m, but even among the leading traders realism rules....
...Round the corner are a couple of brooding cityscapes by Lowry, populated by his dour, bent figures....
...A friend who worked early on at The Lowry Centre in Salford says the worst problem then was that you couldn’t get a taxi to come and pick you up at night, the area had such a bad reputation....
...Lowry. But, with a name change and a new director in Jonathon Burton, this well-located fair, close to the City and the smart Islington squares, still strives to create a niche....
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