La Grande Dame Gold Silver & Bronze introducing her to the Mayan

introducing her to the Mayan and Aztec visual culture

When I was eight

Unlike so many celebrity portraits this was certainly painted from life

apart from its sheer beauty

It was in the early 1980s (in my dentist’s waiting room) that I discovered the iconic British comic 2000 AD

La Grande Dame Gold Silver & Bronze introducing her to the MayanWe have often exhibited Topolskis extraordinary drawings over the years, a more fulsome biography can be found on our website but suffice to say that for a significant portion of the twentieth century he went everywhere and knew everyone. His illustrations recorded key moments in western civilization from the 1930s until the recent past, his pen hardly leaving the page in an urgent flurry of line and characterization. Arriving in London between the