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Meredith Frampton (London, March 17, 1894 – Mere, September 16, 1984) was a British painter and etcher, successful as a portraitist in the 1920s. His artistic career was short and his output limited because his eyesight began to fail in the 1950s, but his work is on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum. Throughout his life Julius Bissier (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1893 - Ascona, 1963) had little interest in becoming affiliated with the various tendencies in the avant-garde; as a result, his work of the 1920s emphatically resists any clear formal clas*ification. His portraits, landscapes and still lifes unmistakably oscillate between New Objectivity, Magical Realism and Pittura metafisica, while the artist personally saw himself as committed to a specifically neoclas*icist or clas*icist figuration more than anything else. The Engagement Ring is a relatively early picture by Godward, painted only a year after he made his debut at the Royal Academy with a picture titled The Yellow Turban. The Engagement Ring has all the qualities of a picture painted by a young artist showing his impressive dexterity. The folds of the dra*eries are beautifully studied and the depiction of the marble interior is exquisite. Godward added archaeological details such as the marble herm of the poet Homer and the vase painted with an acrobat (both based on examples in the Painted in 1930, La Femme aux clés is a striking example of Fernand Léger’s work from the 1930s that reflects his interest in colour, composition and mechanical objects. During this period, Léger shifted his focus away from the industrialism of his post-war compositions toward more natural and biomorphic forms as seen in the present composition featuring a woman and keys. This work is one of the earliest examples of Léger’s juxtaposition of floating objects and figures in his work and exemplifies the powerful influence of Surrealism on the artist’s aesthetic around 1930. Although the artist never aligned himself formally with this