Apollo Book Competition 1 June 2012
For
our last competition prize we offered you Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter (Yale University Press, £30).
We asked you: Lucie Rie studied pottery under Michael Powolny at which Austrian school of arts?
Answer: Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule
Congratulations to James Fenion, winner of this competition, drawn at random from the hundreds of correct answers we received.
Our new competition prize is Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery (Paul Holberton Publishing, £40). Published to accompany the exhibition ‘Mantegna to Matisse’ at The Courtauld Gallery, London (until 9 September), the catalogue offers a comprehensive survey of drawings by Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, German and Spanish artists from the late Middle Ages to the early 20th century. From preliminary sketches to finished pictures, the catalogue presents the Coutauld Gallery’s remarkable collection, featuring works on paper by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt and Picasso (see Apollo’s June issue).
For your chance to win, simply answer the following question and submit your details below before midday on 7 June 2012:
In which year did Samuel Courtauld found the Courtauld Institute of Art?
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