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The historic painting, depicting a throng of people gathered at Burnden Park football stadium, sold for a record-breaking £6.6 million on Wednesday.
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (/ ˈ l aʊ r i / LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.
L. S. Lowry's 1928 painting Going to the Match (oil on canvas, 42.5 × 53.3cm) [2] depicts a crowd of rugby league fans walking right to left across the canvas to a rugby match. The goal posts of the rugby pitch can be seen in the background to the left, and behind the crowd are industrial buildings, a smoking factory chimney and a church.
In the footsteps of Lowry How Manchester artists sought to escape the overwhelming influence of L.S.Lowry. Featuring Geoffrey Key and Reg Gardner with commentary by John Robert-Blunn. "Geoffrey Key Paintings For Sale :: Geoffrey Key Artist". YouTube. 26 December 2010 "Andy Pacino – Artist – Writer". Andypacino.com
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Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry.. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England.
Grimshaw exhibited widely in the UK (including at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy in the 1970s) and in the US and Germany. His work was included in the private collections of L.S. Lowry, Edward Heath (two drawings purchased in 1973), [2] the Warburton (Bread) Family and Gerald Kaufman MP., [3] and he is represented in a number of public collections, including The Tate Gallery ...
The Salford art gallery formerly held over 400 artworks by the Salford-born painter L. S. Lowry which had been collected since 1930, but these were transferred to The Lowry, a new purpose-built gallery which opened in Salford Quays in 2000. [6] Selected works on display