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Lowry painting comes home

14/06/2007

The Lowry in Salford will be hosting a new exhibition, The Myth of the North, later this month.

And a version of local artist LS Lowry's most famous works will take pride of place in the gallery, reports the BBC.

Lancashire Fair: Good Friday, Daisy Nook, which aims to highlight the mood of a Failsworth beauty spot after the second world war, will be displayed in the art centre's latest exhibition.

One version of the piece recently sold for £3.772 million in an auction in London.

The Lowry's head of galleries Lindsay Brooks said: "When we first asked if we could take a version of Good Friday, Daisy Nook on loan we had no idea that another would be going under the hammer a few weeks before the show opens, nor that it would fetch nearly £4 million in the process."

It is a delight that the public will now get the chance to see a version of what has now become a very famous Lowry painting, she added.

The Rocky Horror Show is currently being performed at The Lowry, running until Saturday June 16th.


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