Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier) #botd. Author of Le Grand Meaulnes, now considered a French classic, he died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix in September 1914, aged 27.
'What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action' — Meister Eckhart
Liz Gribin
Solitude, Effects of Light
John Minton
Landscape Near Kingston, Jamaica, 1950
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Simon Martin, Director of Pallant House Gallery, explores the artist’s achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading post-war illustrator and influential tutor...
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Tamara de Lempicka #BOTD 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980
"Her milieu was the glittery and scintillating Paris of the years between the wars, a place of high style and lascivious behaviour..."
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Georges Braque #BOTD 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963
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Still Life with Bottle and Fish, c.1910–12
Still Life with Guitar I (Red Tablecloth), 1936
Steampunk
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Toni Garrn
Karl Lagerfeld 20th Anniversary Collection, 1995
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Bridget Riley #BOTD 24 April 1931
“At the core of colour is a paradox. It is simultaneously one thing and several things – you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours...”
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@tantriclens @lornasiviter
Richard Condon #BOTD 18 March 1915 – 9 April 1996
"In April 1959, Condon’s second novel The Manchurian Candidate was loosed into a world beset by McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia..."
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@tantriclens @howardrodman @FilmLecturer
David Gentleman #BOTD 11 March 1930
"For the best part of six decades, David Gentleman has been working steadily as a designer-illustrator in a tradition of his own making..."
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@tantriclens @lornasiviter @PenguinCollSoc @janicemorphet