23rd Sep, 2021 11:00

Northern Art - Live Online

 
  Lot 49
 

49

§ Samuel Tonkiss (British 1909-1992)
A portrait bust of Laurence Stephen Lowry

Signed and numbered 19/36 from a limited edition produced in 1975, with Morris Singer Foundry stamp, bronze sculpture on marble base.

Dimensions: overall height 33cm.

* Samuel Tonkiss was born in Shropshire and moved to Todmorden in West Yorkshire, where he worked as a journalist. In 1959 he began to sculpt a series of portrait busts, some of which were cast in small editions. An earlier head of Lowry sculpted in 1971 is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.

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Sold for £2,100


 

Auction: Northern Art - Live Online, 23rd Sep, 2021

This sale features a stunning selection of artworks by many of the great Northern artists to include work by L.S. Lowry, Geoffrey Key, William Turner, Reg Gardner, James Lawrence Isherwood, Donald McIntyre and many others. 

 

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