As Beautiful as the Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (Patreon)
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1924 is drawing to a close.
This harvest season the Surrealist Movement is born in Paris and, unsurprisingly, the birth of the weirdest style in modern art is surrounded with lots of eccentric drama.
Salvador Dali will one day become it's biggest star, but right now he is still in art school and has actually only just come out of prison. So will another - albeit less successful - aspiring painter we know all too well...
On the other side of the Atlantic a different kind of drama unfolds: a daring escape that will be the beginning of the end for Gerald Chapman, America's first ever "Public Enemy No. 1"