Apollo Book Competition

Last week our competition prize was 'Wondrous Curiosities, Ancient Egypt at the British Museum' by Stephanie Moser (Chicago; $35). Based on the author's exploration of the British Museum's world-famous collection of Egyptian antiquities, this book investigates the role of museums in our understanding of science, culture and history. Using archival sources the author argues that this British display was central to the way we came to define the remarkable society that produced them. Also discussed are the strategies – such as using pattern and symmetry, and juxtaposing different types of objects – that the British Museum and other institutions employ to represent the past. In addition, the book tells the story of the museum's acquisition of its Egyptian collection and the evolution of its display.

We asked you:

What was the name of the exhibition of Egyptian objects at the British Museum that was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972?

Answer: The exhibition was called 'The Treasures of Tutankhamun'.

Congratulations to Lucy Barr, winner of this competition, drawn at random from the hundreds of correct answers that we received.

This week our competition prize is 'Matthew Smith: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings' by John Gledhill (Lund Humphries; £125). This volume provides, for the first time, a complete catalogue of Matthew Smith's oil paintings from 1905 to 1957, and a substantial critical reappraisal of the artist's work. Gledhill situates the artist – Smith trained at the Slade School before moving to France in 1908, briefly attending the Atelier Matisse – in the context of modernism and his Bloomsbury peers and the London Group. Exhibition catalogues and literature are brought together in extensively researched entries accompanied by illustrations of the majority of the paintings, providing a superb assessment of the British artist.

For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:

In which year did Matthew Smith become a member of the London Group?
(Clue: it was the same year in which the artist exhibited in the London Group summer exhibition).

Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com using 'Matthew Smith' as the subject of your email. Only answers received before midday on 29 January will be entered into the competition draw.

Good luck!

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