Lee Miller & Picasso: The exhibition chronicles the extraordinary life of Vogue model turned war correspondent Lee Miller, a pioneer in Surrealist art, fashion and photojournalism.
Lee Miller constantly broke boundaries as a women, for example she was the first female photographer to enter post-war liberated Paris.Newlands House Gallery, Petworth
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Caption: Picasso and Lee Miller in his studio, Liberation of Paris, Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris, France 1944 by Lee Miller.
Credit:© Lee Miller Archives, England 2022. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk © Succession Picasso/DACS 2022
Copyright_LeeMillerArchives_Self_PortraitCredit:www.leemiller.co.uk © Succession Picasso/DACS 2022 Picasso and Lee Miller in the artist’s studio during the liberation of Paris. Picasso embraced Lee Miller with effusive warmth, declaring: “This is marvellous, this is the first Allied soldier I have seen, and it’s you!” Published: 1. UK Vogue, October 1944. 2. Portrait of Picasso by Roland Penrose 1971 Fig 175 P68 Captioned as: Picasso and Lee Miller. Published in Portrait of Picasso by Roland Penrose, 1956, page 66 and in Portrait of Picasso by Roland Penrose, 1956 (reprinted 1971), page 68, Lund Humphries, London. Captioned as: Picasso at rue des Grands Augustins with Lee Miller, first Allied correspondent to call on him after the liberation of Paris. Published in Visiting Picasso – The Notebooks and letters of Roland Penrose by Elizabeth Cowling, 2008, front cover and page 52, Thames & Hudson, London. Published in Scrap Book by Roland Penrose, 1981, page 136, La Poligrafa, Barcelona. www.leemiller.co.uk © Succession Picasso/DACS 2022 Maya Binkin: Artist Director Newlands House Gallery Writing in Vogue about Picasso’s 1950 visit to Farleys, Lee Miller said; ‘Not only can Picasso animate canvas, paper and bronze but everything in his orbit comes under a magic influence. The winter jasmine came in flower, the hateful stinging nettles disguised themselves with frills of hoar frost, even a great heap of trash and broken tiles produced a lovely form…’www.leemiller.co.uk © Succession Picasso/DACS 2022
