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The Empty House (1932)
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SIZED: 17 x 21 (APPROX.)
DATE: 1932
TYPE: OIL

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The artist drew and painted a number of versions of this house which stood derelict in its surroundings. These are modified and extended quite arbitrarily

A later version, The Island 1942 intensifies the element of loneliness by isolating the house on an island of waste-land surrounded by a watery moat.

However interpreted, the subject is always a symbol of the artist's personal loneliness and a metaphor of universal mystery.

Source: L.S. Lowry RA, 1887-1976: [catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy], 4 September to 14 November [1976]

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