| Description | Papers relating to general planning and loans.
/1. Roland Penrose's planning notebooks
a) notebook, black cover, mostly listing lenders and sources; enclosure at front with postcard reproduction of a Picasso (notes on lenders on verso)
b) notebook labelled 'Brussels, Zurich, Cannes Spring 1959', mainly consisting of notes, with sketches, on Picassos in collections in Brussels and Zurich; includes other notes and a poetic text by Roland Penrose beginning 'Water spills...'
/2. Correspondence (mostly with lenders and the Arts Council) and papers, 1958 - 1960
Arts Council:
Art Panel meeting minutes, 27 February 1958 (attended by Roland Penrose)
Arts Council minute paper, re. loans for Picasso exhibition, 2p.
Correspondence between Roland Penrose and various individuals (and related papers):
Gabriel White: letters from March 1958, 8 November 1958, 6 September 1959 (including list of Picassos owned by Sig. Frua de Angeli, Milan); transcripts of letters to Arts Council from the following - Stedelijk Eindhoven, Hamburger Kunsthalle; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden; copy of letter from Gabriel White to Ralph Colin (collector), January 1960; letter from Alfred Barr to Gabriel White, 11 February 1960; letter from Gabriel White, February 1960; loans list; copies of correspondence between Gabriel White and Frua de Angeli; letter from Roland Penrose to Frua de Angeli, September 1959 - April 1960
Joanna Drew: letters from January 1960, n.d., April 1960, 22 August 1960 (postcard giving exhibition attendance figures)
Copies of Arts Council correspondence with the Foreign Office and diplomatic staff, re. Picasso owned by Somerset Maugham and problems with getting loans from the Soviet Union
Alfred Barr, MOMA: letters from 12 - 18 March 1958; draft ms. letter from Roland Penrose to Alfred Barr: "Picasso list sent to AHB May 1959"; letters from May 1959, 13 January 1960, April 1960 (+ copy of letter from Alfred Barr to Arts Council)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Georg Schmidt & P. H. Boerlin), 3 April 1958
Hotel in Cannes (visit by Roland Penrose)
Kunsthalle Bern (Franz Meyer), 8 November 1958
Siegfried Rosengart, 13 January 1960
Henry Roland (of Roland, Browse & Delbanco), January 1960
Maurice Wertheim, January 1960
Robert Giron of Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, January 1960
Justin Thannhauser, February 1960
Jean Masurel, February - April 1960
Philip Goldberg & F. Lyons, February - March 1960
John Russell (card from, 10 March 1960, re. possible loans)
? - illegible signature, from Roubaix, March 1960
British Council: papers on exhibition of British paintings in USSR, 1960 and letter from Lillian Somerville, 29 March 1960 (probably relates to the loans from the Soviet Union)
Bank, March 1960
Daily Telegraph: newscutting, 31 March 1960, featuring letter from Roland Penrose protesting about errors in his column on the exhibition and the ICA (also featuring reply)
Peter Norton, April 1960
Maurice Jardot of Galerie Louise Leiris, April 1960
Signore de Luca, editor of Revista Commentari (re. article on Picasso by Tzara)
Paris hotel bill
Memos by Roland Penrose on a piece of green paper
Mary (?) to Roland Penrose, 2 April 1960, refusing loan of her Picasso
Dora [Maar] to Roland Penrose, 6 April 1960
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Henry Clifford), May 1960
Xavier Busquets (architect, Barcelona), May 1960
Ilya Ehrenburg, June - July 1960 (re. loans from the Soviet Union)
Stavros Niarchos (re. loans from Niarchos, with details of Picasso's 'Mother & Child' attached)
D. H. Kahnweiler (letter to Roland Penrose, 16 July 1960 and reply, 20 July 1960)
Editor of the New Daily: letter from Roland Penrose, 20 July 1960, correcting inaccuracies in report on Picasso which quoted false statements attributed to Picasso by Papini; newscutting, 13 July 1960
Courtauld Institute of Art, 1 October 1960 (re. slides used)
Proof of the exhibition catalogue, 3p.
Envelope containing personal cards of people in New York (found with the exhibition papers): G. Ferrez, William Lieberman, Harris K. Prior, M. Enzer, P. Ingham, Fred & Irma Lazarus, W. Howkins, J. Thannhauser, G. Staempfli, L. Prejser
List of Swiss collectors (photocopy of ts. text with ms. additions by Roland Penrose, 1p.) |