Roland Penrose

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Roland Penrose was a British Surrealist artist, collector, and influential promoter of modern art who played a key role in introducing avant-garde movements to the UK.

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Roland Penrose canonical 5

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instanceOf Surrealist artist
art collector
art historian
artist
biographer
curator
human
painter
promoter of modern art
associatedWith Farley Farm House collection
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Surrealist movement in Britain
awardReceived CBE
child Antony Penrose
coFounded Institute of Contemporary Arts
conflict Second World War
linked to: World War II
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1900-10-14
dateOfDeath 1984-04-23
educatedAt Bedales School
Queen’s College, Cambridge
familyName Penrose
father James Doyle Penrose
fieldOfWork art collecting
art history
biography
collage
painting
genre Surrealist collage
Surrealist painting
Surrealist photography
givenName Roland
honor Commander of the Order of the British Empire
languageSpoken English
French
militaryService British Army
mother Elizabeth Josephine Peckover
movement Modern art
Surrealism
name Roland Penrose
nationality British
notableFor collecting works by Picasso, Miró, Ernst, and other modern artists
introducing avant-garde art to the UK
organizing major Surrealist exhibitions in London
promoting Surrealism in Britain
notableFriend Herbert Read
Joan Miró
Lee Miller
Man Ray
Max Ernst
Pablo Picasso
Paul Éluard
notableStudentOrProtégé Antony Penrose
notableWork Man Ray
Miró
linked to: Joan Miró

Picasso: His Life and Work
Scrap Book 1900–1981
The Road Is Wider Than Long
Tàpies
linked to: Antoni Tàpies
occupation camouflage instructor
placeOfBirth St John’s Wood, London, England
placeOfBurial Chiddingly churchyard, East Sussex, England
placeOfDeath Farley Farm House, Muddles Green, Chiddingly, East Sussex, England
positionHeld co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
trustee of the Tate Gallery
residence Cassís, France
Farley Farm House, Muddles Green, East Sussex, England
London, England
Paris, France
linked to: Paris
sexOrGender male
sibling Lionel Penrose
spouse Lee Miller
Valentine Boué
taughtAt Home Guard camouflage school

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Institute of Contemporary Arts founder Roland Penrose
Roland Penrose name Roland Penrose
Penrose family hasNotableMember Roland Penrose
Lee Miller spouse Roland Penrose
Guggenheim Jeune exhibitedArtist Roland Penrose