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# LS Lowry's true work of art in a city of football glitz
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## In the foreground thin women push prams and figures loiter in the doorways
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of grey terraces, but mostly the streets are empty.
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![LS Lowry's true work of art in a city of football glitz][1]
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Art depicting life: The Football Match is expected to fetch 3.5-4.5 million
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Photo: PA
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[![Tanya Aldred][2]][3]
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By [Tanya Aldred][4] 7:30AM BST 18 May 2011
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[Comments][5]
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The milling crowd behind stands in a dark rectangle watching a football game,
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and to the sides and the endless distance, are red mills, houses and
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factories, chimneys coughing curved black smoke into the white sky. _The
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Football Match_, one of LS Lowry's most lovely paintings, is up for sale a
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week tomorrow in London.
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Lowry liked football (as well as being a cricket fan who talked with some
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happiness of watching Wilfred Rhodes), and is thought to have supported
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[**Manchester City**][6] although he also went to Bolton Wanderers as Burnden
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Park was within walking distance of his house in Pendlebury.
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His football pictures, though small in number, are thought of as significant,
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and _The Football Match_, painted in 1949, is important because it combines
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the excitement, importance and feel of the Saturday football game with the
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industrial landscape he was so famous for.
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Now, mostly, the factories and mills of Manchester and Salford have gone, and
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it is the stadiums that dominate the skyline, huge and sometimes brutal.
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At the mammoth Old Trafford the traditional two-storey chip shops, bookmakers
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and pubs remain, but around the corner is the stark Imperial War Museum North
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and just across the Quays, the Lowry arts centre itself and Media City where
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the BBC and Coronation Street are to relocate.
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Over at East Manchester, once the workshop of the world, the City of
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Manchester Stadium is built on top of the huge Bradford Colliery.
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The heavy industry that once made up the landscape is gone, instead there is
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regeneration everywhere -- the national squash centre, the velodrome, the
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indoor tennis centre, and one of the largest Asda stores in the country.
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The renewal of this area has changed the direction of Manchester, much as City
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fans hope the FA Cup win will transform the fortunes of their team.
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But though the modern buildings might baffle Lowry, who died in 1976 before
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the death rattle of heavy industry, the mass movement of people at set times
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that so interested him about both football and factories remains the same.
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Even in "The Football Match" the focus of the painting is the crowd -- you can
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barely see the players.
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At Old Trafford at least, in spite of the influx of fans from beyond the M60,
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the same families mass together in the same streets just before kick- off and
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walk the same route and sup the same drink as their grandfathers did before
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the war.
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And football's influence, Manchester football's influence, has only grown
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since 1949 -- just ask the thousands who will turn out for Manchester's two
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victory parades this month: City's flourishing of the FA Cup on May 23 and
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United's celebration, postponed to May 30 in the hope that they will have
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collected a timely win against Barcelona and will be able to show both the
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League title and the Champions Trophy.
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What Lowry, a door-to-door rent collector who revelled in his dour image and
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never had a car and never went abroad, would have made of the modern
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footballer is interesting.
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Certainly he hated the element of celebrity that his painting brought him, and
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was said to always keep a suitcase by the door so that he could claim he was
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just leaving should anyone pop by.
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The most expensive Lowry football painting sold to date was _Going to the
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Match_, which was bought by the Professional Footballers' Association as an
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investment in 1999 and is now on loan to the Lowry in Salford.
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Christie's were tight-lipped over any potential buyers next week and the PFA
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did not answer an inquiry as to whether it would be tempted to add to its
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collection.
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Rachel Hidderley, of Christie's, thinks _The Football Match_, which has been
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hidden from public view for 20 years, is the finest Lowry they have ever put
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up for sale, and it is expected to break the record for a Lowry (which is £3.8
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million _For Good Friday, Daisy Nook _in 2007) with an estimate of £3.5-£4.5
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million.
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Perhaps a philanthropic northern footballer might like to dig in his pockets
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and buy the picture for the Lowry or the National Football Museum, which
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reopens at Urbis in Manchester early next year. More expensive than a
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superinjunction perhaps, but so very much more satisfying.
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