Roland Penrose
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Sir Roland Algernon Penrose was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. During the Second
Penrose, circa 1940
Surrealist work Le Grand Jour, 1938, described by Penrose as a collage painting, made using nothing but paint, depicting among other things an alembic
Penrose used this photograph of his partner Lee Miller to startle his audiences when lecturing on camouflage.
Farleys House, now a museum and archive, with blue plaque
Valentine Penrose
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Valentine Penrose was a French surrealist poet, author, and collagist.
Roland Penrose
…in the United Kingdom. During the Second World War he put his artistic skills to practical use as a teacher of camouflage. Penrose married the poet Valentine Boué and then the photographer Lee Miller. Penrose was the son of James Doyle Penrose (1862–1932), a successful portrait painter, and Elizabeth Josephine…
Penrose photographed by Eileen Agar (cropped)