This was the first purchase by the Sackners of a Tom Phillips artwork. It was acquired fom Galerie Bama in Paris. According to the colophon, this is a suite of 12 lithographs bvased on Brahms Opus 45. The images were derived from postcards collected by Phillips in Germany and have inset texts, which are treated fragments of the novel 'A Human Document' by W H Mallock, and titles quoting the textural material of the Requiem itself. One of the prints has been framed and hangs in the first floor hallway. In the BBC Music magazine (JUne 2013), comments about the CD of the month Brahms's 'A German Requiem' included the following.This Requiem does not mention Jesus nor is there a fire-breathing 'Dies Irae' striking fear into souls of potentially errant isteners! This is a requiem that sets a German not Latin text to music and doesn't pray for the well-being of the dead but instead comforts the living. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.