GOING TO THE MATCH" - 1953- by L. S. LOWRY RA.

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"GOING TO THE MATCH" by L. S. Lowry R.A . "Going To The Match. This print has been finished by being hand textured, varnished, and mounted on board. The image size is 10.5"X 7.75" and framed in a light teak coloured frame, making an overall size of 13.0" X 10.75" and ready to hang. The original was painted on canvas c1953, and measures 28" x 36" and a record price of £1.926.500 at that time was paid for it in December 1999 at Sotheby's. It was purchased by the P.F.A. The painting titled "Going To The Match" is of Bolton Wanderer's old ground, Burnden Park. Lowry often walked there from Pendlebury and was a keen follower of football, and produced a number of sketches and paintings of the game. The PFA chief excecutive Gordon Taylor who bid for the picture by phone, said "We wanted to buy it for football". Laurie Steven Lowry was born in Old Trafford, in Manchester on November 1st 1887. The only child of non artistic parents. He began to study drawing in the evenings at Manchester School of Art under the French Impressionist painter Adolphe Valettew. During the day he worked for the Pall Mall Property Co., He sold his first painting in 1921. Manchester City Gallery Art Gallery purchased "An Accident" in1930, the first collection to acquire his work. In 1962 he was elected to the Royal Academy. He died on the 23rd February 1976, at read more

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