McKellen presses Tate on Lowry

18 April 2011 last updated at 15: 30 GMT industrial landscape, 1955, was shown at the Tate Britain in London in the year 2005 has removed Sir Ian McKellen Tate, its LS Lowry paintings, give challenged it say it is rare in London.

Sir Ian said it was "one up on the unfair shame" that foreign visitors to the capital should not see it.

Tate has seven Lowry paintings. It has 16 drawings and prints that can be viewed by appointment, on London's Tate Britain.

It said it to revive Lowry paintings as part of the Tate Britain, in due course included until end of 2013 planned.

The artist, who died in 1976, is known for his crowd scenes, the industrial life in the cities of North West England.

Writing on his website, Sir Ian - who has made a TV programme about the artist asked: "why it should be important that the Tate has chosen Gallery in London (with its 23 Lowry), none of them displayed for many years?"

"His popularity takes no official confirmation from the Tate, but it's a shame that foreign visitors in London to the English painter should how more than most access not to the unjust to."

He said that, in the past "silly lies have to thrown emphasized that Lowry was only a Sunday painter, amateur, untrained, na?ve."

"If the Tate no responsibility the art viewing public their favorite painter map type, maybe they let could go elsewhere their stash, you pass it to a gallery like the Lowry, who taste share their visitors,", he added.

The Lowry theatre and Gallery complex in Salford is home to approximately 400 works of the artist.

Touring retrospective

Sir Ian also suggested that Lowry's in Pendlebury, Salford - "still standing, empty, Bord-Up and unmarked with a long overdue blue plaque" - and "a unique addition to" his "brand of the museums" of the Tate collection could House.

Alternatively, he said Tate could create one international to "Touring the exhibits were retrospective, with a twist - to sell".

Noel Gallagher, meanwhile, also searching for Lowry - on ITV1 on Sunday - aired are marked is said the paintings from the collection: "they are not as Tateworthy." "Or it's just because he a northern lights?"

The last time one of his paintings Lowry had issued in the year 2005 was as industrial landscape, 1955, was presented, in the picture of Britain exhibition at Tate Britain, said a spokeswoman for Tate.

BP British art shows at Tate Britain from 2000 to 2004 had shown the same picture.

The work was in 1999, Nottingham Castle Museum awarded and Liverpool had before at the Tate, who appeared, said the spokeswoman.

"Tate regularly gives Lowry paintings and is about to come from the school, two paintings, 1927, and the give pond, 1950, to an exhibition in the regions,", she said.

The pond was impossible in the year 2004 for the exhibition view the Lowry has been awarded and had turned in Tate Liverpool a year ago, she added.

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