Back from an omelet and a bagel. Picked up a couple of packages - one contained the April 15, 1941 copy of Vogue. I have been trying to find this issue for five years. For a time I didn't even know WHAT issue it was of Vogue, all I knew was it was 1941 and Vogue came out twice a month in those days, so it was like a needle in a haystack. I've had for some time a piece of original art and all I knew it was Vogue 1941 and the artist name of Milena Pavlović-Barili (she went by Milena). I bought a few Vogue issues from that year with no luck finding it - I was told it was probably some kind of painting for an ad. And Vogue back issues of that era are very pricey so I couldn't just keep buying without being sure. Then about two years ago I Googled extensively and finally found a reference to the artist in a book on Amazon - and there was my painting, called Mound of Beauty and the exact issue it had appeared in. Then I searched it regularly on eBay for two years solid - every other issue from that year eventually showed up, except mine. I finally found it via Google and a back issue magazine dealer - it was reasonable and it's now mine. Not an ad but a full page painting for an article on how to keep one's face beautiful. The painting is small but stunningly realized - quite Dali-esque and simply gorgeous. I'll put a photo of it in tomorrow's notes.
