Andrew Roberts on Feliks Topolski’s dramatic work of art, which is in desperate need of repair
Adjacent to the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank under Hungerford Bridge are some Victorian railway arches which house one of the strangest, largest, most dramatic and most moving works of art in London, a painting that is moreover in immediate danger of disintegration and possible loss.

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