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Arturo Di Stefano (1955 -)

Waterloo 1994-5

SKU: 6380

Oil on linen

65 3/4 x 80 in. (167 x 202.5 cm)

Size:
Height – 167cm
Width – 202.5cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Purdy Hicks 1995; Private collection since 1995
Presentation:
unframed

Exhibited: The London Paintings of Arturo Di Stefano, Museum of London, 22 February – 3 April 2000.


Literature:,Arturo Di Stefano, Portrait of a City: The London Paintings of Arturo Di Stefano Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, for the exhibition Portrait of a City: The London Paintings of Arturo Di Stefano held at the Museum of London, 22 February – 3 April 2000. p.8)


This is one of several paintings of railway stations and was made as a pendant to an earlier work entitled Hotel Splendide, which dealt with ideas of transience and sojourn.Waterloo is freighted with allusions to Monet’s Gare St Lazare – the veils of paint reminiscent of smoke, countervailing the geometric skeletal structure of the rail terminal. My hope was that people would be transported as they looked at this place of transport.(Arturo Di Stefano, Portrait of a City: The London Paintings of Arturo Di Stefano)


The painting shows Platforms 1 and 2 of Waterloo Station during the (brief) period that it was the international terminal for Eurostar. Di Stefano painted it on the day of a national railway strike, hence the eerie lack of passengers.  Waterloo Station was opened in 1848. Its haphazard growth throughout the 19th century led  to it being described as “the most perplexing railway station in London.” It was eventually replaced by the present building with its 21 platforms in 1922. 

 

 

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THE ARTIST

Arturo Di Stefano
Arturo
Di Stefano
1955 -

Arturo Di Stefano was born in Huddersfield, in 1955.

Di Stefano has exhibited extensively since leaving the Royal College in 1981 including the Royal Academy of Arts; Tate St Ives; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Museum of London: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Retrospective).

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