There will always be ladies who lurch
IF you’re in danger of succumbing to an intoxicating wallow in nostalgia, peering through your rose-coloured spectacles and declaring sorrowfully how much better things were in your innocent and unsullied youth, take a good long gander at LS Lowry’s 1944 painting.
Expected to sell for £600,000 when it’s auctioned at Sotheby’s next month for the first time ever, the work is entitled Home From The Pub and features three women, tottering three sheets to the wind, in what could easily turn out to be the unattractive prelude to a brawl.
Long before scantily clad ladettes and publicity-hungry reality-show contestants made falling drunk out of night-clubs their stock-in-trade, closing time drunks were a perennial feature of all our lives.
Twas ever thus.