1. Notes: 73 / 1 year ago 
   

   Bust on table, still life with shells and mirror, England,1930s

   by Roland Penrose [also]

   ©The Roland Penrose Estate

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2. Notes: 107 / 1 year ago 
   

   The Dew Machine, 1937 by Roland Penrose

   Hair had been an important theme for Roland Penrose before he met Lee Miller when he created a Surrealist object titled The Dew Machine (destroyed in the war) made from the head he sawed off a mannequin . He had a wig made of long blonde straight hair, added false eyelashes, and completed her transformation to life by painting the eyes, lips and flesh tones. The head, elegant but banal, hovers upside down above a baseboard and the kind of funnels used by chemists are inserted into the neck, filled with coloured beads. Thin strings connect the funnels to a stick that passes through the hair that caresses the baseboard. A further wine glass shaped apparatus completes the object, and strengthens the conjunction between the forces of arcane magic and the magic of science. It is easy to imagine the object scaled to a gigantic size, the funnels loaded with mysterious substances feeding the hair that softly trails across the countryside wherever dew is needed .

   from MONDOBLOGO [caption found accompanying this work]

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3. Notes: 12 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Lee hanging out of the window,1937

   by Roland Penrose

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4. Notes: 12 / 2 years ago 
   

   Good Shooting by Roland Penrose,1939

   from Notes on British Surrealism at Southampton City Art Gallery

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5. Notes: 27 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Seeing is Believing / L’Ile Invisible

   by Roland Penrose,1937
   

   via thomandevelyn

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6. Notes: 63 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Roland Penrose ~Paul Eluard and ELT Mesens, having a conversation wearing masks
   Downshire Hill London England,1936

   [©The Roland Penrose Estate]

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