2006 Antique Collectors Club

Roland Penrose & Lee Miller - The Surrealist and the Photographer (Könyv)

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The Englishman Roland Penrose (1900-1984) met the American Lee Miller (1907-1977) in Paris in 1937. Already a surrealist artist of considerable talent, Penrose became a committed and tireless champion of modern art through his activities as a collector, gallery owner, writer and exhibition organiser. His outstanding art collection, formed mainly in the 1930s, included masterpieces by Picasso, de Chirico, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Magritte and many others. After World War Two, Penrose was instrumental in founding the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and in 1960 organised the first Picasso retrospective in Britain. A former Vogue model photographed by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene and others, Lee Miller studied photography under Man Ray in Paris in the early 1930s.

She soon became known in her own right as a witty portraitist and fashion photographer in the surrealist mould. But it was as a photojournalist that she left an indelible mark, covering the Blitz, the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Hitler’s concentration camps with an unflinching eye for the telling image. In 1947 the couple married and created a home in Sussex, Farley Farm, that was itself a work of art, as well as a place of pilgrimage for artists and art lovers from all over the world. This book offers an unprecedented insight into one of the most fascinating artistic relationships of the twentieth century.

2006 Antique Collectors Club: Roland Penrose & Lee Miller - The Surrealist and the Photographer könyv ára: 11 063 Ft