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Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) 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 World War he put his artistic skills to practical use as a teacher of camouflage.
In his paintings Penrose presented a poetics of the bizarre, as in Seeing is Believing (1937), where a hand rises toward the head of a blonde woman who is falling from the sky; and Winged Domino (1938), a portrait of Valentine with butterflies on her eyelids and mouth, or Good Shooting (1939
In this extract from his biography of ICA co-founder Roland Penrose, James King explores the life of a quiet rebel: his ambitions for the ICA and how he changed the landscape of contemporary art. Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist is published by Edinburgh University Press.
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) 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.
Roland Penrose (St. John’s Wood, Londres, 1900 – Fairley Farm, East Sussex, 1984) fue un artista y poeta próximo al surrealismo y un impulsor entusiasta del arte de vanguardia de su época. Mantuvo una estrecha amistad con Picasso que se vio reforzada por su papel de coleccionista, comisario y biógrafo del artista. Publicó Picasso.
The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century 'James King has produced a brilli...
Abstract. This chapter details events in Roland Penrose's life from 1936 to 1938. In late 1936, Roland and Valentine went their separate ways. After Valentine l
