1940s

The Silent World (A story of undersea discovery and adventure, by the first men to swim at record depths with...

Paul Delvaux, Phases of the Moon, 1939 "My overriding passion was the books of Jules Verne. I was completely fascinated...

Five Run Away Together, Enid Blyton, illustrated by Eileen A. Soper “It was such a lovely day too, and the...

The Ghost in the Underblows by Alfred Young Fisher, Ward Ritchie Press, 1940 Designed by Alvin Lustig . > John Ueland...

Lucian Freud, The Painter's Room, 1944 Lucian Freud, 1943

Albert Camus “Write to me in spite of my silence. Sometimes it seems I no longer have anything to say...

Lyonel Feininger, On the Bridge (Ober Weimar) 1913 Lyonel Feininger, Bridge V, 1919 Lyonel Feininger, Viaduct, 1920 Lyonel Feininger, Carnival...

Kitty March: How long does it take you to paint a picture? Christopher Cross: Sometimes a day, sometimes a year....

Valentin Serov, Portrait of Olga Alexandrovna, 1893 "The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...

Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton, 1942 New York: Random House, First American edition "Yes - he ought to have known, he...