7 November

Born in 1901 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter.

Above: Path to the Sun, 1962

Also, born in 1913, French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.