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Last week we offered you the chance to win '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.

We asked you:

In which year did Matthew Smith become a member of the London Group?

Answer: 1920

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

This week our competition prize is the catalogue to the current exhibition at the British Museum, 'Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960' (British Museum Press; £25). The exhibition is the first in Europe to examine the great age of Mexican printmaking that emerged from the socialist revolution (between 1910-20) and a strong left-wing government that viewed art as a vehicle for revolutionary values. A pioneering programme was developed to cover the walls of public buildings with vast murals and, later, print workshops were set up to create images for mass distribution. Featuring around 130 prints by over 40 artists, this lavish book begins with works by the popular engraver José Guadalupe Posada, whose macabre dances of skeletons have always fascinated Europeans. Also included are works by key figures such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

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

Leopoldo Méndez produced prints for two films (in 1960 and 1966). Name one of the films.

Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com using 'Mexican Prints' as the subject of your email. Only answers received before midday on 1 February will be entered into the competition draw.

Good luck!


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