In November 2011, 'Piccadilly Circus, London', one of the very few paintings of London by which artist, sold at auction for £5.6 million?
Piccadilly Circus part of the Tate Britain collection. Sculptor Paul McCarthy also has a 320-page two-volume edition of video stills by the name of "Piccadilly Circus". Bob Marley mentioned Piccadilly Circus in his song "Kinky Reggae", on the "Catch a Fire" album from 1973. L. S. Lowry R.A painting "Piccadilly Circus, London" (1960), part of Lord Charles Forte's collection for almost three decades, sold for £5,641,250 when auctioned for the first time at Christie's 20th Century British & Irish Art sale on 16 November 2011. Contemporary British painter Carl Randall's painting 'Piccadilly Circus' (2017) is a large monochrome canvas depicting the area
L. S. Lowry the paintings was estimated to be in excess of £200,000. In March 2014 fifteen of Lowry's works, from the A.J. Thompson Collection, were auctioned at Sotheby's in London; the total sale estimate of £15 million was achieved, even though two paintings failed to reach their reserve price and were withdrawn. Thompson, owner of the "Salford Express", collected only Lowry paintings, starting in 1982. The auction included the paintings "Peel Park, Salford" and "Piccadilly Circus, London", Lowry's most expensive painting at auction to date, which fetched £5.6 million in 2011 but only £5.1 million in 2014. Lowry painted very few London