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Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak have splashed out on an original L.S. Lowry painting as a parting gift for outgoing manager Manuel Pellegrini.

Khaldoon presented the work of art to the Blues boss before the game, in appreciation of his work for the club.

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Nobody at the club would reveal which painting they bought, but Lowrys can cost anything between £4,000 and £5.6million.

The gift is a fitting one as Lowry, famous for his Northern landscapes, was a City fan, and one of his most famous works was “Going to the Match”.

Pellegrini is a big art fan and has spent much of his spare time during his three-year reign as Manchester City manager touring cultural hotspots in Britain, collecting art and reading widely.

He was a guest of honour, along with former youth team boss Patrick Vieira, when the Clark Art Gallery in Hale held a an evening celebrating northern art in 2014

The club has also presented him with a picture by Manchester artist Stephen Campbell entitled “Man City v Aston Villa”.

That portrays the crowd going wild as the Blues beat Villa 4-0 in the penultimate match of Pellgrini's debut season, in 2013-14, to set up his only Premier League title win.

In that game, City needed to win to stay ahead of Liverpool at the top of the table, and after a tense start they blitzed the visitors with two goals from Edin Dzeko and one each from Stevan Jovetic and Yaya Toure.

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