Lowry, who died in 1976 at the age of 88, won fame for his paintings of industrial parts of northern England populated with his signature "matchstick" figures ... deal the buyer negotiated directly ...

He is famous for his 'matchstick men' drawings of industrial scenes in northern England. But early art school drawings that have been discovered after 100 years show that LS Lowry was also ...

a 'matchstick men' painter 57 years her senior. They came together when Carol Ann was 13 because she wanted to be an artist and her mother suggested she write a letter to a man called L.S. Lowry ...

While the term 'matchstick men’ has been endlessly used in relation to these figures, Clark doesn’t object to it. 'Modern art is always simplifying and schematising. This is what happens when ...

Even today, LS Lowry is dismissed in some circles as an 'amateur' or a 'Sunday painter', who just painted gloomy Northern scenes and 'matchstick men ... to those famed art critics Sir Ian ...