![Laurence Stephen Lowry - The Fun Fair at Daisy Nook [1953]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7710/17261027152_869e599865_o.jpg)
Fun Fair at Daisy Nook is a marvellous and life-enhancing record of the world at play - a festival or bank holiday, perhaps, and quite probably the Easter Fair celebrated in a pair of similar paintings from 1946, both entitled Good Friday, Daisy Nook. This popular Lancashire fair was evidently a favourite subject for Lowry. Daisy Nook is between Droylsden and Failsworth, near Manchester, and the annual Good Friday fair is still run by the Silcock family, whose name is blazoned over the castellated tent end above the eye-catching word Thriller. This was evidently an advertisement for some kind of Wall-of-Death entertainment. The foreground frieze of people includes balloon and whirligig sellers, kids in pointed hats, dogs, prams: the slice of urban life on holiday that Lowry loved to depict.
[Christie’s Auction House - Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 91.5 cm]