Lowrys Fetch £11.5m?

Yesterday's BBC News headline screamed "Lowry paintings sell for £11.5m", but its figures don't add up. It quotes a Christie's spokeswoman as saying the total amount of money raised from the sale was £11,592,163. Did she mean the sale of the Lowrys or the total of works sold at Christie's auction of 20th Century art? Oh, muddled reporting, Aunty. Or hype. This painting - Lowry's Manchester City vs Sheffield United (1938) - was sold after the auction for an undisclosed sum.