Going to the Match

Going to the Match
Artist	L. S. Lowry
Year	1953
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Naïve art
Dimensions	71 cm × 91.5 cm (28 in × 36.0 in)
Location	The Lowry, Salford
Accession	LOL084

Going to the Match is the title of a number of paintings by British painter L. S. Lowry, depicting crowds of spectators walking towards a sports ground. Lowry's best known Going to the Match painting is his 1953 painting of football fans heading towards Burnden Park, the then home of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.^[1] Two earlier works of this title also exist; a 1928 painting depicting fans outside a rugby ground, and a 1946 painting of a crowd of sports fans.

In 2021 the 1928 painting was valued at between £2 and £3 million and is now in a private collection. Lowry's 1953 Going to the Match was on loan to The Lowry arts centre in Salford between 2012 and 2022, and was sold at auction for £7.8 million in 2022.