Laurence Stephen Lowry, who died in 1976, is known for his depictions of working-class life in industrial parts of northern England. In the 1955 oil on canvas, the Queen's Head Inn is recognisable ...
Yet its new price tag falls some way behind those of Lowry's later works The Football Match (1949) and Piccadilly Circus (1960), which both sold for £5.6m in 2011. Laurence Stephen Lowry gained ...