Lowry's Going to the Match to feature in football exhibition

Going to the Match depicts fans attending a Bolton Wanderers game in 1953

One of LS Lowry’s most celebrated works is due to go on display at as part of an exhibition on football culture.

Going to the Match, showing fans arriving for a Bolton Wanderers game at their former home, Burnden Park, was bought at auction for £7.8m by Salford’s Lowry gallery in 2022.

It followed calls for the 1953 painting to remain on public view near the artist's former home in the city.

The painting will be on display Bury Art Museum from 4 October until 1 March as it tours northern England, enabling more people to see it for free.

It had previously been owned by the Professional Footballers Association union.

Items loaned by Bury Football Club supporters will also be exhibited at the town’s art museum, alongside photographs exploring fan culture.

LS Lowry, who died in 1976, spent much of his life in Salford and his distinctive work is strongly associated with life in northern England.