Queen's Road Station, Bayswater is a 1916 oil painting by the German-born British artist Walter Sickert.Corbett p.192 Green p.54 It depicts a man sitting on a platform of what was then known as Queen's Road Station on the London Underground, serving the Bayswater area. Above his head is an advert for the nearby Whiteleys department store. At the time the station was the nearest to Sickert's home off Westbourne Grove.Behr p.81
Sickert was a key member of the Camden Town Group who were strongly influenced by the European-wide Post-Impressionism trend. The work was bought by the painter and art critic Roger Fry in 1919 who bequeathed it to the nation in 1935. It now forms part of the collection of the Courtauld Gallery. https://gallerycollections.courtauld.ac.uk/object-p-1935-rf-405
References
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