Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.

“Illness, madness and death were the black angels that watched over my cradle and have since followed me through life,”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) died of a heart-attack 7th July. Shortly before his death he looked back on his life and drew this cartoon

A compendium of demons and magic with the enticing warning "Do not touch me" inscribed on the title page.

The only known film footage of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) at work painting lilies in his garden at Giverny in (1914

Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir painting at home (1915) aged 74.

Images from The Diary of Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) Frida Kahlo “Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process”

The Entire City by Max Ernst (1891–1976) a series of around 12 paintings on the same theme.

At the age of 18 Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) sustained horrific injuries when she was involved in a bus collision in Mexico City.