Valentine Penrose
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Valentine Penrose was a French surrealist poet, author, and collagist.
Penrose photographed by Eileen Agar (cropped)
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
Valentine Penrose
…family in Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France. The family moved to Paris when she was very young. In 1925, she married the English artist, historian and poet Roland Penrose (1900–1984) and joined the community of surrealists based in Paris, Mougins and England. The marriage was never consummated. Boué and her husband moved…
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