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拍品專文
'The artist was seated in the Oxford train at Paddington station when his attention was attracted by a trolley pulling baggage trucks on the opposite platform. He immediately made a quick sketch of the subject from which this picture was painted' (see Arts Council Touring exhibition catalogue, London, 1966, p. 17).
The present work was painted in 1962 by which time the artist was an accepted figure of the art establishment. Indeed it was in this year that he was elected as a Royal Academician at the age of 74.
The scene he presents us with no longer reflects the heavy, grim industrial views of earlier paintings, but is a light-hearted, humorous glimpse of a passing moment. The composition is dominated by horizontals and emphasised by the rhythmic pattern of the baggage trucks. The individuals beyond are subsumed into the total pattern of activity whilst the figures in the foreground are silhouetted against the rails creating a frame within a frame. The whole proceedings are presided over by the face of the station clock, a permanent and silent indicator of time; one of Lowry's most enigmatic images.
The present work was painted in 1962 by which time the artist was an accepted figure of the art establishment. Indeed it was in this year that he was elected as a Royal Academician at the age of 74.
The scene he presents us with no longer reflects the heavy, grim industrial views of earlier paintings, but is a light-hearted, humorous glimpse of a passing moment. The composition is dominated by horizontals and emphasised by the rhythmic pattern of the baggage trucks. The individuals beyond are subsumed into the total pattern of activity whilst the figures in the foreground are silhouetted against the rails creating a frame within a frame. The whole proceedings are presided over by the face of the station clock, a permanent and silent indicator of time; one of Lowry's most enigmatic images.