A version of an LS Lowry painting that fetched a record-breaking £3.8m is to go on public display.
Lowry's work Good Friday, Daisy Nook had been expected to sell for £1.5m at a Christie's auction in London but smashed the previous record for a Lowry held by Going To The Match, which sold for £1.9m in 1999.
London art dealer Richard Green snapped up the 1946 painting of mill workers at a festival in a country park in Failsworth, Manchester.
The painting is one of several interpretations of the scene painted by Lowry.
One of the alternatives, Lancashire Fair: Good Friday, Daisy Nook, goes on show at The Lowry in Salford as part of an exhibition, The Myth Of The North, which opens on June 30.
It is on loan from the Government Art Collection after it was acquired from Leicester Art Galleries more than 60 years ago.
In addition to Lowry works, The Myth of the North will feature images and icons that celebrate life in the North of England.
It will include photographs from Bill Brandt and Martin Parr, paintings by Liam Spencer and Andy Capp cartoons.
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