The photographer of Picasso
Actress, model, photojournalist and war correspondent Lee Miller took a thousand snapshots
(no more, no less) the Malaga painter during his thirty-six years of friendship. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, Picasso Museum houses these days the exhibition Lee Miller. "Just seeing the faces of Picasso to be fascinated by the bright black eyes of this little man warm and friendly. Other gems are exposed snapshots and documents of Roland Penrose, Picasso biographer who was the husband of Lee Miller and link between the two. Their son, Anthony Penrose, said yesterday that the value shared by parents Picasso was freedom. The Picasso Museum joins the celebration of its centennial with the exhibition Lee Miller. There were sixty thousand negatives, of which a thousand document the private life of Picasso and his friends, among whom were Miller and her late husband, Roland Penrose, British artist and theorist who wrote eighteen books on the painter. It seems that Miller, cheerful, facilitate the work of Penrose's biographer. Penrose was a devoted fan who ran tournée Picasso's Guernica by fascist half of Europe. As for Lee Miller, his son remembers neurotic with severe depression. He left active journalism and devoted himself to be Mrs. Penrose. ''Lee Miller: Picasso en private''in the Barcelona museum brings together a total two hundred and sixty and four works among which include one hundred sixty-four Miller's photographs of Picasso on the environment and for the first time, the five portraits The Malaga-born artist painted of the American photographer dressed Arlesienne. The Picasso Museum joins with the exhibition at centenary of Lee Miller, focusing on the professional relationship and friendship with Picasso. Documentary and advertising photographer, war correspondent, and surrealist artist model, Lee Miller met Picasso when he and his partner Roland Penrose, arrived in Mougins (France). Picasso's friendship with Penrose benefited the work of photographer and allowed him to enter his privacy .. Lee Miller was a photographer with a wide range of records because they could work with models for Vogue magazine''be''and while a war correspondent during World War II. Anthony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, said the exhibition is a "tribute" to Picasso and which showed the "passion and intensity" of the characters that populate the walls of the museum. Besides the photographs of Lee Miller and five oil paintings by Picasso, the exhibition also displays photographs of Roland Penrose eighteen of his visits to Catalunya, five of David Douglas Duncan in which he portrayed Lee Miller shows how Picasso, three prints of the artist Malaga and a work of Antoni Tapies. ''Lee Miller: Picasso en private''complete with a Rolleiflex camera of photographer and forty-seven documents, including books on Picasso and the love letters they exchanged Roland Penrose and Lee Miller during the Second War World, "Miller worked in London and photographed wearing day and night fashion, the effects of the bombing. Miller went to the soldiers from the landing at Normandy to Paris. When he reaches the capital, in 1944, visit to Picasso. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum is preparing a retrospective exhibition to open in September. There are also several new publications that tell the biography of Miller, published images of him or remember his relationship with British intellectual and artist Roland Penrose (1900-1984). Miller and Penrose were partner and soon to be known in summer 1937, visited Mougins in the region of Alpes-Maritimes, to meet Picasso in his studio. In 1958 he published & laqhis Life and Work, "biography of reference. Just Miller's relationship with Penrose and Lee were married maiden name lost-motivated, since 1937, close contact with the artist. The Miller-Penrose triangle-Picasso is the great motivating the temporary exhibition presents the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. The exhibition brings together hundreds of photographs-some positives for the first time that, as explained Pepe Serra, director of the Picasso, "show all information obtained during visits Miller Picasso". Anthony was yesterday at the press conference and confirmed the surprise she had when she rediscovered her mother's past. But she also remembered that when he was a child, Picasso played with him and that when her school friends went home, laughing the portrait that Picasso made his mother, in Mougins, in the summer of 1937. The table in question, which is part of a series of paintings that are presented in Barcelona, was bought by Penrose to be sent to Miller as a "gift of love."