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Going to the Match
L.S. Lowry
1953
Lowry's signature matchstick-figure style captures the mass ritual of working-class fans heading to a match.
One of the most beloved British paintings of football culture, purchased by the PFA for record sums at auction.
- Language
- N/A (visual art)
- Subject
- Crowds streaming toward a Northern English football ground
- Region
- Europe
- Tone
- Elegiac
- Difficulty
- Familiar
- Awards
- Record UK sporting art auction price (2011)
Professional Footballers' Association collection, on loan to Lowry Centre, Salford
On public display
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