LS Lowry

‘One of his finest’: LS Lowry seascape expected to sell for up to £1.5m

British artist’s 1947 painting Beach Scene, Lancashire to go to auction after 70 years in Canadian collection

Mark Brown North of England correspondent

14, Nov, 2023 @12:55 PM

Salford museum pays £7.8m for LS Lowry’s Going to the Match

Purchase of 1953 painting beloved by football fans made possible by gift from charitable foundation

Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

19, Oct, 2022 @7:05 PM

Save Lowry’s Going to the Match for public, urges Salford mayor

Plea to wealthy footballers and clubs to help buy auctioned painting to stop it disappearing into private collection

Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

28, Sep, 2022 @11:07 AM

LS Lowry’s The Auction to be sold at Sotheby’s

Lancashire artist’s 1958 painting expected to fetch up to £1.8m next month

Harriet Sherwood Arts correspondent

19, Oct, 2021 @10:27 AM

LS Lowry’s Going to the Match to go under hammer at Sotheby’s

Salford artist’s 1928 painting of crowd flocking to rugby match is expected to sell for up to £3m

Helen Pidd North of England editor

01, May, 2021 @9:47 AM

Saved from destruction: the church where Lowry sealed a blossoming friendship

The property that was the backdrop to a companionship between the artist and a young female painter has been granted listed status

Jamie Doward

13, Dec, 2020 @9:45 AM

A thimble solution to stuck-together pages | Brief letters

Brief letters: BSA revival | Gary Younge | Lowry’s plan | Stuck-together pages

Letters

18, Nov, 2020 @5:24 PM

Lowry in the shadows of his Salford home: Derry Moore's best photograph

‘He wasn’t keen on keeping still. He moaned: “You’re killing me, you know.” My companion said: “Well, come on, Mr Lowry, you always say you want to die”’

Interview by Michael Segalov

24, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM

Stuffed mermaids, baroque masterpieces and David Hockney at dawn – the week in art

Surreal treasures from Europe’s strangest collections, what we’re missing at the National Gallery, and artists respond to George Floyd’s death – all in your weekly dispatch

Jonathan Jones

05, Jun, 2020 @1:18 PM

LS Lowry paintings of crowds to go on sale in Christie's auction

Rugby fans, a packed beach and a chip shop queue feature in lineup for ‘People Watching’ sale

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

03, Jun, 2020 @2:36 PM

Exhausted, relieved, yearning for change: Britain on VE Day

As the UK celebrated wartime victory against Germany in May 1945, a landslide Labour poll win was only weeks away

Daniel Todman

03, May, 2020 @7:07 AM

Overlooked LS Lowry painting re-emerges after 70 years

Christie’s to auction The Mill, Pendlebury, which has never been on public display