Revisiting Evelyn Waugh's brilliant novel 'Brideshead Revisited' and the early section about life at Oxford University during the 1920s I was reminded of this small section in which Waugh writes of Charles Ryder's undergraduate rooms.
"I proudly hung a reproduction of Van Gogh's sunflowers over the fire and set up a screen painted by Roger Fry with a Provencal landscape, which I had bought inexpensively when the Omega workshops were sold up.I displayed also a poster by McKnight Kauffer and Rhyme Sheets from the poetry bookshop, and, most painful to recall, a porcelain figure of Polly Peachum which stood between black tapers on the chimney piece."
He goes on to describe his books, but this tantalising vignette of his room is just a joy to contemplate. 
This first edition of Waugh's novel dates from 1945 and the period he is writing of is in the early to mid 1920s at Oxford, which is when Waugh himself was a student at the University, although not a very good one as he only managed a third-class degree. The first edition is valued at somewhere around £700.
The Omega workshops closed in the summer of 1919 and Evelyn's brother had been given a screen by Roger Fry, which was at the family home, Underhill. Interestingly Ryder disposes of the the screen in 'Brideshead Revisited', reflecting Waugh's own disenchantment with Bloomsbury. This screen from the Omega Workshop was painted by Fry's former lover, Vanessa Bell and is on show at the V & A in London.
