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Portrait of Ann (1959)
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SIZED: 23 X 19 APPROX. (ABOVE DETAIL)
DATE: 1959
TYPE: OIL

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During the 50's and 60's the artist made a number of paintings and drawings of "Ann"

They are all "composite", archetypal portraits; partly his god-daughter Ann Hilder and partly evocations of his mother, and the daughter of a farmer in Swinton Moss near Lytham St. Annes whom Lowry had met and grown close on childhood holidays. She was also named Ann, and died when still a young girl in 1913.

"Ann" was therefore one of the Lowry "dream women" and played a role in his personal mythology similar to that occupied by the women of Rossetti, an artist for whose sultry, goitred "stunners" Lowry possessed a consuming passion. His private collection contained a number of Rossetti portraits.

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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