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Lot Essay
Lowry was keenly interested in football and cricket as a young man, and often went to watch Bolton Wanderers play at their home ground at Burnden Park in Bolton, a few miles away from his home in Pendlebury. In the series of paintings depicting crowds going to a match, Lowry is fascinated by the concept of a mass of individuals converging on a single point, with a single purpose in view.
In the present work, Mervyn Levy considers that the football theme 'is rendered in the Impressionist manner recalling the work of Adolphe Valette and his teaching of the method. Here Lowry employs the idiom to create a hazy sense of crowd density; of people of elements of mass, rather than as individual entities. It is 'Manchester Impressionism' at its most subtle'.
(see L.S. Lowry, Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1976, p.62).
In the present work, Mervyn Levy considers that the football theme 'is rendered in the Impressionist manner recalling the work of Adolphe Valette and his teaching of the method. Here Lowry employs the idiom to create a hazy sense of crowd density; of people of elements of mass, rather than as individual entities. It is 'Manchester Impressionism' at its most subtle'.
(see L.S. Lowry, Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1976, p.62).