In pictures: Lowry's unseen art gets Salford showcase
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An exhibition of around 100 works on paper, oil sketches and paintings by the artist LS Lowry that have never been seen in public before has gone on display in the city where he lived and worked for much of his life.
Unseen Lowry, which is showing at the gallery which bears the artist's name, gathers together studies, sketches and finished landscapes and portraiture from across the artist's career.
The exhibition traces how the artist developed his distinctive style and reveals the extent of his fixation with drawing erotic subjects in later life, as can be seen in around a dozen "mannequin" figures - drawings of young women in tight corsets and high heels.
It also includes works that he sketched while out working or visiting places further afield than his native Greater Manchester, such as a drawing of Clifford's Tower in York.
The Lowry's Michael Simpson said the exhibition addresses one of the main criticisms levelled at Lowry - that he could not draw. "Actually, he was a really good draughtsman and had an excellent understanding of the human body and the way it works," he said.
He said that Unseen Lowry, which is at The Lowry in Salford until Sunday 29 September, gives "any visitor who thinks they know Lowry some things that they have never seen before".
- Published1 June 2013