biography
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Penrose, Sir Roland (Algernon)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–84)
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| biography:
| Painter, connoisseur, and art collector, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, lived in Paris (1922–35), and began to collect Cubist and Surrealist art. In 1936 he organized the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, and in 1947 founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His friendship with Picasso led to his writing the standard biography (1958) and organizing a major exhibition of his work at the London Tate in 1960. |
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