Lowry's Thurso masterpiece sold for £842,500
A painting of Shore Street in Thurso sold for £842,500 as part of a collection of LS Lowry artwork which fetched over £15 million at auction.
The Lancashire artist painted Street Musicians when he visited the Caithness town in 1938 and it was sold to an American collector at Sotheby’s in London on Tuesday night.
The painting was previously owned by Cambridgeshire business man AJ Thompson, whose entire collection of Lowry paintings went under the hammer.
The painting of the Thurso street was the fifth most expensive work sold out of the collection, with three pieces of his work being sold for over £1 million.
The most expensive was his 1960 artwork of Piccadilly Circus in London which was bought for £5.1m by an anonymous bid.
Read more in Friday’s John O’ Groat Journal
