A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by literary editor of the Manchester Guardian ...

On May 2, Lowry’s Going to the Mill (1925), which was first acquired in 1926 for just £10 (roughly £520, or $700, in today’s money), was offered at auction at the Mall Galleries in London ...

L. S. Lowry sold Going To The Mill in 1926 for £10 A painting L. S. Lowry sold for £10 has made more than £800,000 at auction. Going To The Mill was bought in 1926 by the Manchester Guardian's ...

A painting by L.S. Lowry that was sold for £10 has now fetched more than £800,000 at auction. The painting, Going to the Mill, was bought by an admirer directly from Lowry in 1926, ...

Two Cincinnati artists at the beginning of their careers – writer Robert Lowry and illustrator Jim Flora – teamed up in the late 1930s to publish chapbooks under the name The Little Man Press.

Solitude. In fact, Lowry’s popularity can easily obscure what he was really up to as a painter, and he himself – a consummate self-deprecator – was happy to let it.

Laurence Stephen Lowry is a 64-year-old English painter who has spent the past 35 years discovering the city of Manchester (pop. 700,700). It is only in recent years that the English have ...

A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by literary editor of the Manchester Guardian ...

A painting L. S. Lowry sold for £10 has made more than £800,000 at auction. Going To The Mill was bought in 1926 by the Manchester Guardian's literary editor, Arthur Wallace, for the equivalent ...

A painting by L.S. Lowry that was sold for £10 has now fetched more than £800,000 at auction.

Going To The Mill is marked on the back as being £30, but Lowry let Mr Wallace have it for £10. It is believed to be one of the earliest sales made by the Stretford-born painter.