Samuel Tonkiss (1909-1992), A portrait bust of Laurence Stephen Lowry, signed and numbered 29/36 from a limited edition produced in 1975, bronze, height 29cm (excluding marble base), together with a reprinted photograph showing the artist with Lowry. * 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.