Farley Farm House
People
Lee Miller and Roland Penrose
Lee Miller and Roland Penrose came to live at Farley Farm in 1949. In the 35 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. 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.
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.
See also
References
- ^ Joanna Moorhead (5 April 2009). "Picasso came for tea". The Observer. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- ^ Penrose, Antony (2001). The Home of the Surrealists: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and their circle at Farley Farm. Francis Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-1726-3.
Further reading
- Locke, Tim (2011). Slow South Downs & Sussex Coast. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-1-84162-343-6.