When Darkness Comes:
Paris, 1942 - when so few did so much for so many

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Sketchy studies of some grey-green slugs circa 1942

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Operation Bowery, 9th May 1942. A spitfire recovered by Wasp for mechanical malfunction.
"It's okay. Let's go homeward bound."

It will be the sinking day of Wasp on the 15th of September,but she will be remembered.
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16-year-old schoolgirl Lena Mukhina wrote a diary about the WW2 Siege of Leningrad which began in 1941. She documented her rage and concern, her cheerfulness despite everything, the horror of starvation. The diary runs until May 1942; in June she was evacuated from the city.

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Marc Chagall, The Carnival. Study for backdrop for Scene II of the ballet Aleko, 1942 https://t.co/AXDHFWgiDk

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📷 in 1942 •••

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Gertrude Abercrombie, Little White Church, 1942, Oil on Masonite

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Dès qu'on fait un pas hors de ce qui a été déjà pensé,
dès qu'on s'aventure en dehors du reconnaissable
et du rassurant,
dès qu'il faut inventer de nouveaux concepts pour des
terres inconnues,
les méthodes ou morales tombent

Andre Masson - Il n'y a pas de fin du monde 1942

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Summer 1942, the rotting carcass of a sea serpent was found on a beach by two local council workers in my town. The strange creature was said to be 28ft long. The men were ordered by the Royal Navy (who use the waters) to destroy the creature...

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"Famille ukrainienne" ou "Village en feu" fait partie d'un cycle de quatre peintures réalisées il y a 80 ans, vers 1942 par Marc Chagall, né Moses Zakharovich Chagalov (1887 - 1985). Gouache, 68 x 51 cm.

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Marc Chagall, Peasant. Costume design for Scene III from the ballet Aleko, 1942 https://t.co/TmxtsgzxmZ

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The Valley of Light - painted in commemoration of - 6th September 1942

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Marc Chagall, A Policeman and a Peasant. Costume design for Scene IV of the ballet Aleko, 1942 https://t.co/WJMPAusG5B

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🎨Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866 - 1942)

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Dorothy Lathrop, Mr. Bumps and His Monkey by Walter de la Mare, 1942 https://t.co/ZcD5UcWrGL

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La città deserta di notte, un diner dalle ampie vetrate rischiarato dal neon che illumina tre avventori, ognuno dei quali è chiuso nei suoi pensieri e indifferente anche verso il barista che sembra voler comunicare con loro.

Edward Hopper“I nottambuli”1942*

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