Lowry art is coming back to its gallery
A PAINTING by LS Lowry is going back on public display after being bought for a record £7.8million.
Going to the Match had been hung at gallery The Lowry in Salford, Greater Manchester, since 2000.
It was on loan from the Professional Footballers Association and when the PFA decided to sell, some feared it would disappear into a private collection.
But a donation by the Law Family Charitable Foundation meant the gallery could buy the work.
The £7.8m it paid last month was a Lowry auction record. The 1953 painting shows fans at Bolton Wanderers’ old stadium Burnden Park.
Julia Fawcett of The Lowry said: “We cannot wait to bring it home.”