Queens Road Station, Bayswater

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1860-1942

Title

Queens Road Station, Bayswater

Date of Production

c. 1916

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 62.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 73 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1935.RF.405

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

  • local transit
  • subway stations

Label Text

Queens Road station (now Bayswater station) was one of the first underground stations in London. This painting shows a view across the tracks to a platform where a man is seated in a recess. The diamond-shaped platform sign was a short-lived prototype of the famous bar and circle design, introduced shortly after Sickert completed the canvas. The name 'Whiteley’s' refers to the well-known department store just north of the station. For contemporaries, Whiteley’s was synonymous with the sensational murder of the store’s founder in 1907. Sickert’s arrangement of the station’s signs and advertisements into patterns of form and colour particularly appealed to Roger Fry who bought this painting in 1919 for his London home.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom right & recto : : Sickert

Provenance

Roger Fry (1866 - 1934); Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935

Exhibition History

Walter Sickert, Tate Britain, 25/04/2022-18/09/2022; Petit Palais, Paris, 14/10/2022-29/01/2023
The Camden Town Group, Tate Britain, London, 13/02/2008-04/05/2008
British Vision, Museum of Fine Arts,Ghent, Belgium, 06/10/2007-13/01/2008
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Sickert Paintings, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 25/02/1993-31/05/1993
Sickert Paintings, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20/11/1992-14/02/1993
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