Famous L. S. Lowry painting depicting a rugby league crowd to go on public display for first time ahead of auction

The earliest known sports painting by L. S. Lowry, depicting crowds gathering for a rugby league match is to be unveiled in public for the first time in over 50 years, ahead of its auction debut at Sotheby’s this summer. Painted in 1928, Going to the Match is among the earliest known, if not the earliest, depiction of one of L.S. Lowry’s mos