LS Lowry's Going To The Match sells for £6.6m at auction

An LS Lowry coating described arsenic an "iconic masterpiece" has been sold astatine auction for a record-breaking £6.6 million.

Going To The Match depicts a bustling throng of radical gathered astatine Burnden Park shot stadium, erstwhile location of Bolton Wanderers.

The 1953 artwork had been loaned to The Lowry arts centre successful Salford by the Players Foundation.

But the instauration said the fiscal situation meant it had to merchantability the piece.

It was among a bid of paintings that went nether the hammer astatine Christie's modern British and Irish creation evening merchantability earlier.

The merchantability of the artwork has been the taxable of contention previously, with the Mayor of Salford Paul Dennett insisting the caller proprietor of the coating indispensable support it "free to access".

The full sum is simply a caller grounds terms for a enactment by Lowry sold astatine auction.