MORE ON LOWRY-A CITY SUPPORTER.

Just a quickie today before I go and join the U13s practice, they are fresh from a 10-2 victory last weekend, so they may be a bit cocksure! A change in formation put two centre forwards up front and bingo! Looks like 4-4-2 for this weekend then.

L.S.Lowry, having painted a football match at Berwick (see yesterday), had three (or possibly more) football matches on "canvas".

Lowry lived in Salford originally and supported Manchester City. His most famous painting will be the one titled originally as "Football Ground". He used Bolton Wanderers' old ground Burnden Park, as his scene, painted for a competition run by the F.A. in 1953.
He renamed it "Going to the Match" and the F.A. bought it for £1.9 million in 1999.

Prior to this he painted "The Football Match" in 1949 which sold for £5.6m, becoming the most expensive Lowry, in 2011. The painting was originally bought in 1951 by Harrry Walston a Cambridgeshire farmer and later a Labour Life Peer. When he died it sold for £132,000 in 1992 and finally reached the record price 9 years later.

The above painting is called "The Football Match" too and I dug up this unseen drawing, known a "A Study of a Football Match" shown below.

Can anyone find more about these two last pieces of work?

ps he has done the odd cricket match too.