Wolfgang Paalen
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Wolfgang Robert Paalen was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and art philosopher. A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934 to 1935, he joined the influential Surrealist movement in 19
Paalen, c. 1940
Entrance to Paalen's birthplace, Köstlergasse 1, Vienna
Castle of the Paalen-family in Sagan from 1913 to 1934
Paalen in his studio apartment, rue Pernety, Paris, about 1933
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
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…base for his later ideas of a deep entanglement of vision and outer world. After another year of studies, in Paris and Cassis (1925–26), where he met Roland Penrose, Jean Varda (Janco) and Georges Braque, he visited the art school of Hans Hofmann in Munich and, in 1928, Saint-Tropez. He then decided to settle in…
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