λ Arthur Delaney (British 1927-1987) Henry Street, Ancoats Oil on board Signed (lower right); further signed, titled and inscribed (verso) 45.5 x 36cm (17¾ x 14 in.) Provenance: The Selwyn Demmy Collection 'HENRY STREET - ANCOATS. This is one of many little streets off the Oldham Road that begins in the centre of the city in the ancoats [sic.] area. This is a street that L. S. Lowry drew and tracing his footsteps I stopped to try and see what it was that he found to interest him in this very ordinary street. It could only have been the shapes of the buildings and the elegant Victorian steeple of St. Pauls [sic.]. The only thing that was different from the Lowry drawing of 1931 was the new ultra modern Daily Express building built in the later years of the 1930s. I instantly loved the contrast of the styles and decided to do my picture set in a time just before the second World War II [sic.] soon after the Express was constructed. Here was a subject that would not date and become a record for the future.'