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Title:

Surreal encounters : collecting the marvellous : works from the collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch / edited by Annabelle Görgen, Keith Hartley and Saskia van Kampen-Prein ; with contributions from Dawn Ades, Richard Calvocoressi, Désiree de Chair, Elizabeth Cowling, Hubertus Gassner, Antony Penrose.

Publisher:

National Galleries of Scotland,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

264 pages ; 30 cm

Subject:

Surrealism--Private collections--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Penrose, Roland, Sir, collector. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055560
James, Edward, 1907-1984, collector. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032775
Keiller, Gabrielle, 1908-1995, collector. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97075833
Pietzsch, Ulla, collector. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001028623
Pietzsch, Heiner, collector. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001028625
Görgen, Annabelle, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96042873
Hartley, Keith (Keith S.), editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83145763
Kampen-Prein, Saskia van, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014083309
Ades, Dawn, contributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50037567
Calvocoressi, Richard, contributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78073419
Chaire, Désirée de, contributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014166212
Cowling, Elizabeth, contributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00140248
Gassner, Hubertus, 1950- contributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84069656
Penrose, Antony, contributor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85098484

Notes:

Publication includes works of Eileen Agar (1899-1991), Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966), Balthus (1908-2001), Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), Victor Brauner (1903-1966), André Breton (1896-1966), Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Oscar Dominguez (1906-1957), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Max Ernst (1891-1976), Leonor Fini (1907-1996), Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Georges Hugnet (1906-1974), René Magritte (1898-1967), Man Ray (1890-1976), André Masson (1896-1987), Joan Miró (1893-1983), Henry Moore (1898-1986), Richard Oelze (1900-1980), Wolfgang Paalen (1905-1959), Roland Penrose (1900-1984), Valentine Penrose (1898-1978), Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962), Yves Tanguy (1900-1955), Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-260), a separate bibliography, and index.

Contents:

`Think, Examine and Decide': Living with Art The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection in the Context of Reception of Surrealism in Germany / Roland Penrose: Private Passions for the Public Good / Annabelle Gorgen. Roland Penrose: The Quiet Collector / Antony Penrose -- Edward James -- A `Born' Surrealist: Edward James as Collector, Artists' Friend and Patron of the Arts / Desiree De Chair -- Edward James: The Pleasure Principle / Hubertus Gassner -- Now or Never! The Edward James Foundation Makes Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen a Unique Offer / Saskia Van Kampen-Prein -- Gabrielle Keiller -- Gabrielle Keiller Collects / Elizabeth Cowling -- How Surrealism Came to Scotland / Richard Calvocoressi -- Ulla And Heiner Pietzsch -- `Think, Examine and Decide': Living with Art The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection in the Context of Reception of Surrealism in Germany / Annabelle Gorgen.

ISBN:

190627097X
9781906270971

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959328752

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)