Tate Liverpool's Matisse exhibition to feature LS Lowry letter

Among other pieces, the exhibition will show four bronze abstracts and Lowry’s note offering a donation to buy themIn 1956, the Tate gallery launched a public appeal to buy a set of four abstract bronze sculptures of the backs of naked women, by the French artist Henri Matisse, and received in response a handwritten note in rather blotty blue ink, sent from the Elms, at Mottram in Longdendale, offering a donation.It was from LS Lowry, famous for his northern industrial landscapes and match