11. Mim’s Parents Made a Fatal Mistake

Let’s put 1918 behind us. Here’s a print from my collection. Olympic with Returned Soldiers. It’s from the painting by Arthur Lismer, when the ship harbored in Halifax after the Great War. Luxury liners had been pressed into duty as troop ships. In 1919 they were still painted in dazzle camouflage, which was supposed to make them harder for German U-Boats to spot. Picasso said dazzle was the perfect example of his Cubist painting. If I’d only bought more Picasso’s before he was discovered… we...