The Races, 1920s, Oil Painting

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This painting on panel depicts the interior of a bustling urban train station, seen from a vantage point sheltered beneath … Read more This painting on panel depicts the interior of a bustling urban train station, seen from a vantage point sheltered beneath a metal-framed glass roof.
The thick, visible brushstrokes prioritize sensation and texture over precise drawing. The volumes are constructed through the juxtaposition of colors and variations in texture, a technique inherited from late Impressionism. The palette, dominated by smoky blues, ochres, and browns, evokes an industrial atmosphere while maintaining a sensitive and poetic approach to light.
The choice of subject—a train station and a steam locomotive under a glass roof—is fully in keeping with the iconography of early 20th-century modernity, a period during which the train station became a symbol of progress, movement, and urban transformation.
This painting is signed in the lower right corner; the signature is yet to be deciphered. See less