LS Lowry The Football Match Sells For A Record Price At Christie’s

The LS Lowry painting The Football Match had not been seen in public for nearly 20 years but at auction at Christies last week it sold for a record £5.6 million.

A keen supporter of Manchester City, Lowry painted The Football match in 1949.

The auction estimated price was £4.5 million but this was quickly surpassed to reach £5.6m, a record for a Lowry at auction.

Another Lowry piece, called ‘Coronation Street’ which inspired the ITV soap Coronation Street, was also at auction this week and sold for £445,250, including the buyer’s premium.

Lowry was very famously celebrated in the chart hit ‘Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs’ by Brian and Michael in 1978.

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