ONE of LS Lowry’s most popular paintings will be on display at a Wirral art gallery.

LS Lowry’s Going to the Match was painted in 1953 and is one of the artists best known and most popular pictures.

The 1953 work shows fans arriving for a Bolton Wanderers game at their former home, Burnden Park.

The work of art has been on public display at The Lowry, Salford since it opened in 2000, courtesy of a loan by the then owners the Professional Footballers Association (PFA).

Following a campaign, Going to the Match was purchased by The Lowry in Salford for The Lowry Collection at the Modern British & Irish Art Sale at Christie’s in London in October 2022, following support of The Law Family Charitable Foundation.

The painting returned to public display at The Lowry in November 2022 as part of Salford’s Lowry Collection and The Lowry is now working with galleries and venues across the North West.

Supported by a £95,000 grant from Arts Council England through its National Lottery Project Grants programme and additional support from the Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation, the tour will mean the popular painting can be enjoyed by the widest possible audience across the region.

The painting will be displayed at the Williamson Art Gallery alongside other works by Lowry and a selection of pictures from the Williamson’s collection which place Lowry in the wider context of painting in northern England in the mid 20th Century.

The exhibition will run from April 19 until July 27.