As never before, Stanley Spencer and L.S. Lowry are being acclaimed, talked about and sold for phenomenal prices. After years of condescension from modern-minded art-lovers who treated their disturbing visions as too quirky, too backward-looking or simply too provincial to be of lasting interest, Spencer and Lowry are finally being accepted as more than local oddities or British one-shots. Several big international shows as well as sales at auction would seem to confirm their worldwide appeal.
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