Sarah Wilson was born in London in 1956 and studied at Oxford University, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. At the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Barbican Art Gallery, London, she was involved with major retrospectives concerned with postwar France: '"Paris-Paris, Creations en France 1937-1957', "1981, and "'Aftermath: France 1945-1954', "1982. Subsequently appointed lecturer in twentieth-century art history at the Courtauld Institute, she has helped to mount major exhibitions of the work of Raoul Dufy, Fernand Leger and the surrealists. She has published recently on