LS Lowry in the picture

Des O’Sullivan previews Whyte’s sale which features a number of leading names from the Irish art world

THE artist LS Lowry, one of Britain’s favourite painters, loved to visit Ireland. Proud of his Irish roots, he completed paintings dated 1956, 1964, 1969 and 1970 with scenes in Dublin, Skerries, Drogheda and Belfast. In fact, this was the only country he travelled to outside of Britain.