A LOWRY print has fetched a new world record price at auction in North Yorkshire.

The print of the Manchester artist’s Going to the Match came from an edition of just 300 prints and has traditionally commanded a high premium.

But at a fine art sale of work by Northern Artists, held at Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn earlier this month, it attracted a new world record price of £22,000.

It was one of 13 LS Lowry prints up for sale on November 13 and 14. Several of them set new world record prices, with an average lot value of £5,670.

The auction house beat its own world record for the print, setting the last one in July when another edition of Going to the Match reached £20,000 at Tennants.

Also up for sale was work by the late North-East pitman painter Norman Cornish, from Spennymoor. Three pieces were sold, with his work, Little Girl with Umbrella fetching £12,000.

Also sold was Pit Road Winter, for £9,000 and Trimdon Grange Crossing, which fetched £4,500.

The artist, who was a member of the miners’ art group, the Pitman’s Academy, depicted everyday life in County Durham. He spent 33 years working underground and died last year, aged 94.

Work by his contemporary pitman painter Tom McGuinness also fetched hundreds of pounds. The artist was conscripted into Fishburn Colliery as a Bevin Boy in 1944 and began attending Darlington School of Art. He branched out into oil paintings at classes held for miners at the Spennymoor Settlement.

A spokesperson for Tennants Auctioneers said: “These impressive results continue to illustrate the demand for Northern artists and Tennants Auctioneers as market leaders in this field.”