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Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
Oil on canvas, 1961
40 x 32 inches

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
Oil on canvas, 1961
40 x 32 inches

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Oil on canvas, 1961
38 x 25 ½ inches

William Empson (1906-1984)
Oil on canvas, ca. 1960
30 x 25 inches

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
Oil on canvas, 1961
40 x 32 inches

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 1961
43 ½ x 55 inches

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Oil on canvas, 1943
94 ½ x 51 inches

Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
Oil and acrylic on board, 1959
72 x 48 inches

Charles Percy Snow, 1st Baron (1905-1980), 1962
Oil on canvas, 1962
50 x 38 inches

Dame Rebecca West (1892-1983)
Oil on canvas, 1961
36 x 28 inches

All images © Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate

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