as seized by a contemporary mind." In 1959, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, commissioned Topolski to create a mural depicting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The mural contains 14 friezes divided into two narratives; one narrative; entitled "In The Streets" shows various processions to Westminster Abbey, while the second, entitled "In The Abbey", depicts the procession out of the Abbey after the coronation. Topolski painted portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H. G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan, He also painted murals, contributed to BBC programmes, such as the caricatures of guests used in Face to Face and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in a studio in railway arches near London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century. It opened to the public as a free permanent exhibition called Topolski Century. In 2014 it was re-opened as a café-bar called Topolski, featuring his art. In 1989 he was elected a senior Royal Academician as a draughtsman. Feliks Topolski died in London on 24 August 1989 at the age of 82. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, north London. He had a daughter, Theresa, and a son, Daniel, a rower who captained and coached Oxford in the Boat Race. Books illustrated Bernard Shaw, Geneva', London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1939. Britain in Peace and War. London: Methuen, 1941. Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1941. Russia in War: London, summer 1941; Russia-bound convoy; a British cruiser; Iceland. London: Methuen, 1942. Jozef H. Retinger, Conrad and his contemporaries, New York: Roy Publishers, 1943. Three Continents, 1944–45: England, Mediterranean convoy, Egypt, East Africa, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, India, Burma front, China, Italian campaign, Germany defeated. London: Methuen, 1946. Face to Face, 1964. Richard J. Whalen, A City Destroying Itself: An Angry View of New York, New York: William Morrow and Co., 1965. Tony Palmer, The Trials of Oz London, Blond and Briggs, 1971. See also Topolski Century, mural artwork on South Bank, London, UK References Further reading Feliks Topolski: Fourteen Letters''. London: Faber, 1988 External links Topolski Century gallery 1907 births 1989 deaths 20th-century Polish painters Polish graphic designers Polish illustrators Polish war artists Artists from Warsaw Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom 20th-century British painters British male painters Expressionist painters Burials at Highgate Cemetery British war artists World War