About the book: 1959 / "Nude with a Violin" is a sharply satirical comedy by the popular English actor, playwright, comedian, composer and wit, Sir Noel Coward Pearce. The world-famous avant-garde artist, whose paintings are exhibited in the best museums in the world and are sold for fabulous money, has died. After the funeral, his relatives suddenly learn that the deceased did not paint a single painting in his life..