New LS Lowry exhibition aims to demolish ‘naive and uncultured’ myth

A Football Match by LS Lowry, painted in 1932, will go on display for the first time in nearly 85 years in October. Photograph: Crane Kalman Gallery, London

A new exhibition of work by LS Lowry will “bust a few myths” about the Mancunian artist, who the show’s co-curator says is still wrongly derided for being “naive and uncultured”.

LS Lowry: the Theatre of Life features 140 paintings by the artist, who captured working-class life in the industrial north-west of England during the early and mid 20th century.