So convinced was Topolski that the drawings had gone forever that he even allowed himself in 1954 to be persuaded by an eccentric continental jurist that there was a case to be presented to the For...
Tuesday 10th August '10, (1) comments
Eventually after several months of discussions between d'Ors and the German Embassy, d'Ors was told that the drawings would no longer be available since their withdrawal to Berlin had been ordered ...
Tuesday 3rd August '10, (0) comments
On the fall of France in 1940, Eugenio d'Ors returned to Madrid. From his office he made contact with the German Embassy in Madrid in the hope that through wartime diplomatic channels he would be a...
Tuesday 27th July '10, (0) comments
By the end of 1938, Topolski had completed a remarkable collection of just over two hundred drawings of Paris and d'Ors wrote four dialogues of imaginary discussions between himself and the Artist ...
Tuesday 27th July '10, (0) comments
The story behind the 'Paris Lost' prints is based on facts- their survival through the ravages of wartime travel between Poland, Spain and Germany, their appearances and disappearances- but there a...
Wednesday 21st July '10, (0) comments
Topolski's Chronicles are on display and for sale in the gallery. But it's quite difficult to explain what they are, because they are so many different things in the same time. When a set was sold ...
Monday 5th July '10, (0) comments
Topolski's Chronicles as investment! A whole set has been sold by Sotheby's recently, and, though I am fully aware of what I've previously said ( art is a good investment only if the artist is well...
Wednesday 23rd June '10, (0) comments
Why did men stop wearing hats? Was wearing hats just a fashion choice? Were they practical? Or just a compulsory accesory, like the tie?
I asked some guys to tell me what they think about hats, a...
Tuesday 22nd June '10, (0) comments
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