Lowry football match painting has antiques valuation of £4.5m
The piece has been given a pre-sale estimate of £4.5 million.
A painting by LS Lowry from 1949 has been given an antiques valuation of up to £4.5 million, it has been revealed.
The piece - entitled The Football Match - is set to go under the hammer at Christie's in London on May 26th.
It has been described by the auctioneer as a "modern masterpiece", which depicts hundreds of matchstick men watching a football match among a landscape of terraced houses and factories.
Philip Harley, head of 20th-century British and Irish art at Christie's, said: "The Football Match is the ultimate work for passionate connoisseurs of Lowry's work and of football."
What's more, if it reaches its antiques valuation then the item will break the record for the highest amount ever spent on a Lowry piece, which was £3.8 million in 2007.
Last year, a Lowry painting - called The Steps, Irk Place - fetched £713,000 and outdid its pre-sale estimate of £600,000.
Posted by Lisa Marriott