Farleys House

Farleys House near Chiddingly, East Sussex, has been converted into a museum and archive featuring the lives and work of its former residents, the photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose. It also houses a collection of contemporary art by their friends Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Joan Miró.

People

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose came to live at Farley Farm in 1949 and, in the thirty five years they lived there, built up a collection of contemporary art. Many of these were made by their friends and visitors, including Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Joan Miró.^[1] These artworks were assembled by Miller and Penrose, along with other works from all over the world by their son Antony Penrose, who has transformed the barn into an art gallery for upcoming and local artists to show their work. The house is surrounded by a sculpture garden and Lee Miller's vegetable patches.^[2]

Picasso

Picasso visited Miller and Penrose at Farley Farm on 11 and 15 November 1950. On his second visit he created a drawing in Indian ink on two pages of the ICA visitors book (now in the British Museum), of bulls with grasshopper's wings perched on twigs; he had seen William, an Ayrshire bull, that day in the farm's dairy. It is one of only two works Picasso created in England, the other being a mural in John Desmond Bernal's flat in London.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of museums devoted to one photographer

References

Further reading

• Locke, Tim (2011). Slow South Downs & Sussex Coast. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-1-84162-343-6.

External links

• Official website
• Lee Miller official site
• Roland Penrose official site Archived 1 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Creative-Freelance – review
• uckfieldnews.com

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