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Selection of TOPOLSKI's CHRONICLES published by Topolski in a limited edion of 100 booklets from 1953 -1979
An unbiased and honest global social history unveiled in swirling grandeur and ceremony.

Felix Topolski was born on 14 August 1907. He studied in the Warsaw Academy of Art and trained as an artillery officer.
Later he moved to work in Italy and France and eventually moved to the United Kingdom in 1935 and founded a studio near Waterloo where there is still a free permanent exhibition which chronicles the 20th century.
He married twice, first to Marian Everall and then Caryl J. Stanley. The George Bernard Shaw play In Good King Charles's Golden Days was published in 1939 with illustrations by Topolski, bringing his work to a wide audience in the UK.
During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. He gained British citizenship in 1947.

Feliks Topolski’s own personal experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings. This was the first stage of his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles.
The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 only to be interrupted to accommodate his exploratory investigations from across the globe. The Chronicles acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wider audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. The Chronicles contain 3,000 drawings and exhibited in New York, Moscow, Cologne, Hamburg, Hawaii, Tel Aviv and serialised in the United States, Poland, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland. As Joyce Carey wrote, it is ‘the most brilliant record we have of the contemporary scene as seized by a contemporary mind.

Topolski painted number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan, He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as Face to Face and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century. It is open to the public as the Topolski Century.Feliks Topolski died in London on 24 August 1989 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery, north London. (acknowledgement with thanks to Wikipaedia )

Print Number	Click image for larger version	Description	Excellent	Price	Avail.
topolski1		UNDER CONSTRUCTION..THESE LITHOGRAPHS ARE HAND PRINTED AND FOLDED..PLEASE CHECK WITH LARGE IMAGES BEFORE ORDERING. They were as this note shows limited to a 100 editions and must therefore be considered very rare items.	Excellent, but I am struggling with "brown" background colour	Prices from Ł29-Ł595
topolski2		The Guards Brigade London 1956 Lithograph on Brown paper measuring 46 x 17.75 inches. Hand printed lithograph after Drawing by Topolski from "blocks" by London Publishers. Slight stress to paper top left but can be ironed or laid down. impressive and rare.	Excellent, Brown background almost correct but may vary dependent on light. but please note page centre creases common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs	Ł390
topolski3		WINSTON CHURCHILL With full size image verso, lithograph on rough brown paper measuring 18 x 11.4 inches published 1954 (7.19. Vol 11.1954	Excellent	Ł195
topolski4		BERTRAND RUSSELL PROPHETS, SAINTS,CRUSADERS OF THE WEST Lithograph measuring 10.2 x 8.0 inches on brown paper.(7.19. Vol 11.1954)	Excellent	Ł85
topolski5		BERTRAND RUSSELL PROPHETS, SAINTS,CRUSADERS OF THE WEST Lithograph measuring 10.2 x 8.0 inches on brown paper.(7.19. Vol 11.1954)	Excellent	Ł85
topolski6		BERTRAND RUSSELL PROPHETS, SAINTS,CRUSADERS OF THE WEST Lithograph measuring 18 x 11.4 inches on brown paper.(7.19. Vol 11.1954)	Excellent	Ł165
topolski7		CARRIBEAN DANCERS Chronicle no 16 (52) vol 111 1955 measuring 22.8 x 18 inches, Yellow on rough brown paper	Excellent, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithograph	Ł135
topolski8		JAPANESE THEATRE Chronicle no 11 (47) vol 111 1955 measuring 18 x 11.4. 4 page spread Japanese Theatre internal double with 4th page Geisha dance festival	Excellent,	Ł135
topolski9		PANDIT JAWARHARLAL NEHRU (1889-1964). First Prime Minister of India, who worked with Mahatma Gandhi to achieve independence from British rule peacefully. Lithograph measuring 18 x 11.4 inches on brown paper.(1.37. Vol 111.1955)	Excellent	Ł195
topolski10		USA ELECTS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER "IKE" Lithograph measuring 18 x 11.4 inches on brown paper dated 1956 ( Vol 1V.1956)	Excellent	Ł195
topolski11		ROYAL VISIT TO AMERICA, QUEEN ELIZABETH 11 and PRINCE PHILIP Topolskis Chronicle No. 17-22 Vol 5 1956 measuring 23 x 18 inches on brown paper.	Excellent, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs.	Ł195
topolski12		MALCOLM X, BLACK POWER Large blue / black lithograph with red overprint " MALCOM X was assassinated in New York whist this issue was in printing (21st Feb 1965) Measures 36 x 23 inches( arguably the most powerful image Topolski ever produced )	Very good, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs. Please see large image.	Ł595
topolski13		MAHATMA GANDHI 1869-1948 Topolski Chronicle Vol V 1958 measuring 16.5 x 14.5 inches	Excellent, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs.	Ł195
topolski14		MAHATMA GANDHI 1869-1948 Topolski Chronicle Vol V 1958 measuring 16.5 x 14.5 inches	Excellent, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs.	Ł195
topolski15		PANDIT JAWARHARLAL NEHRU (1889-1964) Inaugeration of Indian Parliament New Delhi Lithograpk measuring 26.5 x 12 inches published Topolski Chronicle dated 1958	Excellent, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs.	Ł195
topolski16		NEW YORK Lithograph measuring 23 x 18 inches published Topolski Chronicle 1957	Excellent, but please note page centre crease common to all Topolski broadsheet lithographs.	Ł85

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