Apollo Book Competition

For our last competition we offered you the chance to win 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.

We asked you:

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

Answer: La Rosa Blanca or Un Dorado de Pancho Villa

Congratulations to Simon Moore, winner of this competition, drawn at random from all of the correct answers that we received.

This week our competition prize is a copy of 'A Genius for Failure: The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon' by Paul O'Keeffe (The Bodley Head; £25), reviewed in the current issue of Apollo by Julian Treuherz. Intensity, struggle and near-comic inability to succeed encapsulate Haydon's career. Thirty years before his death his huge, iconic paintings had made him the toast of 19th-century London, drawing paying crowds to the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly for months and leading nationwide tours. However, his attempt to repeat such success three months before his death was to destroy him: barely a soul turned up, leaving the desperate painter alone, humiliated and facing financial ruin. Our reviewer sums up: 'Stubborn, wrong-headed, impetuous, frank, comical, veering from the heights of ecstasy to the depths of despair, Haydon stuck to his convictions with such whole-hearted intensity that O'Keeffe forces us to admire him to the end, even as we shudder.'

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

What is the title of the play written by John Wells about Benjamin Robert Haydon?

Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com using 'Haydon' as the subject of your email. Only answers received before midday on 19 February will be entered into the competition draw.

Good luck!