†SAMUEL TONKISS (1909-1992) HEAD OF LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY

†SAMUEL TONKISS (1909-1992) HEAD OF LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, RA 1975 bronze, cast by the Morris Singer Foundry London in 1975, on serpentine base, signed TONKISS, foundry seal, serpentine base, 33cm h overallProvenance: anon sale in these 'rooms, 6 May 2009, lot 1002 to the present vendor.Samuel Tonkiss was born in Shropshire and moved to Todmorden in West Yorkshire where he worked as a journalist. In 1959 began to sculpt a series of portrait busts, some of which were cast in small editions. An earlier head of Lowry sculpted in 1971 is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. The present bust, being un-numbered, is extra to the edition of 36, cast in 1975. Tonkiss wrote two autobiographies, Just for the Record and Raking Amongst the Embers.