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When that painting was sold, there were more than 300 Lowry works in the store rooms of public collections in nearby Salford and Manchester, according to David Lee, editor of art magazine The Jackdaw.
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At a recent lecture at the LSE in London, market editor of The Art Newspaper Melanie Gerlis illustrated this new art world order with a description of the recent auction of a painting by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma Tadema, a long-forgotten Victorian favourite.
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So if it's true that Banksy's irremovable mask is part of the intrigue drawing the unwitting to his film, since "everyone loves that one of the most famous people in the world doesn't want you to know who he is, " he keeps his integrity by using the attention to drive a larger conversation, said RJ Rushmore, editor of street-art website Vandalog.com.
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