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| Ethel Gabain The Little Hat ca. 1940 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Henry George Hoyland Clowns' Dressing Room 1940 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| William Roberts The Control Room 1941 oil on canvas Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester |
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| Norman Cope Nude Old Man 1943 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
from The Calmative
"I don't know when I died. It always seemed to me I died old, about ninety years old, and what years, and that my body bore it out, from head to foot. But this evening, alone in my icy bed, I have the feeling I'll be older than the day, the night, when the sky with all its lights fell upon me, the same I had so often gazed on since my first stumblings on the distant earth. For I'm too frightened this evening to listen to myself rot, waiting for the great red lapses of the heart, the tearings at the caecal walls, and for the slow killings to finish my skull, the assaults on unshakable pillars, the fornications with corpses. So I'll tell myself a story, I'll try and tell myself another story, to try and calm myself, and it's there I feel I'll be old, old, even older than the day I fell, calling for help, and it came. Or is it possible that in this story I have come back to life, after my death? No, it's not like me to come back to life, after my death."
– Samuel Beckett (1946)
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| John Worsley Shower Room at Marlag O (German Prisoner-of-War Camp for British Seamen) 1944 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| Stanley Spencer The Psychiatrist (Mrs Charlotte Murray) 1945 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Keith Vaughan The Singer ca. 1945 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Massimo Campigli Six Women 1945 oil on canvas Estorick Collection, London |
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| Duncan Grant Paul Roche Reclining ca. 1945 oil on canvas Charleston House, Lewes, Sussex |
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| Leonora Carrington The Pomps of the Subsoil 1947 oil on canvas Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
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| Anthony Devas Camilla Sykes and Mark ca. 1948 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| Nancy Mellor Académie 1948 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Joan Hargreaves Two Men at a Table 1948 oil on canvas Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections |
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| Derek Hill Boxer Resting (Don Cockell) 1949 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Barbara Hepworth Two Girls with Teacups 1949 oil and pencil on board Southbank Centre, London |