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THe GeTTY
roLand Penrose
british
1900-1984
NiGHT AND DAY
1937
oil on canvas
Private collection, england
© antony Penrose
the roland Penrose collection
east sussex, england 1999
© 2002 the J Paul getty trust
to reflect their relationships. Man
Ray, enraged after a quarrel with
his muse, depicted Miller with
her neck slashed in his 1930–32
painting Le Logis de l’Artiste (The
Artist’s House), using a previous
photograph of Miller with her
head thrown back and her neck
extended as a model. Penrose
envisions Miller, whom he married,
as Night and Day in his painting
portraying Miller in a costume half
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adorned with clouds floating in a
blue sky, and half shaded in the
gentle darkness that comes with
night.
As an artist, Miller’s work moves
from portraits taken in her New
York studio, to documentary
images recording her travels,
to the stark faces of death and
destruction captured on the
fields of war as a correspondent
for the U.S. Armed Forces. Across
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Pablo Picasso
spanish
1881-1973
Portrait of Lee Miller
1937
oil on canvas
lent by a. and r. Penrose
© 2002 estate of Pablo Picasso/
artists rights society (ars), new york
the maturing quality of her work,
we see the different threads of
her prior experiences united in
her vision. in her photograph
documenting the suicide of a
German official and his family at
the end of the war, Miller moves
her lens close to the subjects,
capturing the bodies as if they
were in a state between dream and
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