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Feliks Topolski, a visual chronicler, portrait artist, illustrator, and author, was born in Warsaw, Poland, on August 14, 1907, the only child of actor Edward Topolski and Stanislawa Drutowska. He was a student at the Mikolaj Rey School. He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Art from 1927 to 1932, during which time he also served as a cadet at the Artillery Officers' School.

While still a student, he contributed drawings to the periodical Cyrulik Warszawski (The Warsaw Barber), and received a commission to paint a mural for the hall of the Polish Institute for the Promotion of Modern Art. Topolski spent time studying on his own in France and Italy before traveling to England in 1935 to record George V's Silver Jubilee for a Polish magazine.

He remained in London and connected with the group that included Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, J. B. Priestley, Anthony Powell, and William Empson. He provided illustrations for Night and Day, a short-lived London periodical for which Green Feliks Topolski - Artworks for Sale & More | Artsy RUFOR