US EditionLS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 sells for more than £800,000
- A rare painting by L.S. Lowry titled 'Going To The Mill' was auctioned in central London in 2025, fetching a price of £805,200.
- Arthur Wallace originally bought the painting directly from Lowry in 1926 for £10, and it remained in his family for nearly a century before the sale.
- Experts highlighted the painting as an early, crucial work from Lowry's 1920s period, expressing industrial loneliness through deliberate abstraction.
- Simon Hucker, Lyon & Turnbull’s head of sale, said the painting shows Lowry at his "conceptual best," rejecting the idea he was a naive painter of matchstick men.
- The sale confirms Lowry’s status as a household name, with this piece exemplifying his unique voice in British art and attracting significant collector interest.
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