The Boy Who Bit Picasso
- Artist: Lee, Roland Miller, Penrose
- Published: 2010
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 23cm
- Pages: 48
- Illustrations: Includes 65 illustrations, 25 in colour
£8.95
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When Antony Penrose was three he was lucky enough to meet Picasso and become his friend.
Tony - the son of the American photographer Lee Miller and the British Surrealist artist, Roland Penrose - recalls the many happy hours he spent with Picasso at their family farm in Sussex and in Picasso’s own house and studio in France. His memories include pretend bullfights on the floor, playing in Picasso’s ‘messy’ studio, being given a drawing as a consolation for not being allowed to visit him, and the time he bit Picasso - and what the artist did in return...
This charming book is a wonderful introduction for children to the art of Picasso, who was as much a magician as an artist to the young Tony Penrose.
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Artists Biography
Lee Miller produced some of the most powerful photographs seen this century, from portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, to her work as a correspondent with the US army in World War II. Beginning her own studio in Paris with artist Man Ray, she went on to work with Vogue, and in France, Egypt, and New York, being best remembered for her witty Surrealist images.
Artists Biography
Sir Roland Penrose was a major figure of Surrealism in Britain and also promoted many other aspects of contemporary English art during his lifetime.
In 1936, he helped organise the International Surrealist Exhibition in London and worked closely with artists such as Ernst, Miro, and Picasso.
After the war in 1947, he and Herbert Read founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts and went on to write several books, including Picasso: His Life and Works in 1958.
