Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose
- Artist: Lee, Roland Miller, Penrose
- Published: 2006
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 24cm
- Pages: 400
- Illustrations: Illustrated in black & white
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These documents are important, exhilarating and fresh. They are uncensored, first-hand, on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company.
The informal immediacy of the jottings – anecdotes, incidents, telling details and off-the-record conversations – makes for a compellingly candid read.
Penrose’s notes also include revealing accounts of the artist at work, affording insights into the making of masterpieces, such as Guernica. As well as artworks and events, photographs taken by, among others, Penrose’s wife, the celebrated photographer Lee Miller, illustrate the colourful cast of characters – from Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot to Jean Cocteau and Gary Cooper.
This fascinating record of an era, and of a remarkable relationship, is a must for anyone with a scholarly interest in Picasso, but also for the many readers who are intrigued by the life and personality of one of the most charismatic personalities the world has ever known.
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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.
