Named_CollectionRoland Penrose
TitleSurrealism in Britain, 1930s and 1940s *
LevelFile
FormatDocument
Printed material
Date[1936] - 1946
Ref_NoGMA A35/1/1/RPA641
Description/1. 1 x ms. postcard, n.d. [1936], with drawings (recto) and inscriptions (verso); signed by various Surrealists /2. 3 x printed pamphlets, [November 1936?], entitled 'Declaration on Spain', issued by the Surrealist Group in England /3/1. 7 x copies of exhibition catalogue, with preface by Benjamin Péret, for Surrealism exhibition, Gordon Fraser Gallery, Cambridge 1937 /3/2. 3 x posters on pink paper with green illustration and black text, 1937 /4/1. 1 x ts. list with ms. additions, entitled 'List of Surrealist Paintings for exhibition in Gloucester', May 1938, 3p. /4/2. 1 x exhibition catalogue, with ms. annotations by Roland Penrose, for 'Realism and Surrealism' exhibition, City of Gloucester Guildhall, 1938 /5. 1 x ms. receipt, 20 May 1938, entitled 'Pictures lent to Mr [Morris] Carstairs for exhibition in Edinburgh', 1p. /6/1. 1 x copy of exhibition catalogue for British Surrealist and abstract paintings exhibition, Northampton, 1939 /6/2. 1 x ts. letter, 26 June 1939, from M. B. Bradshaw, The Art Exhibitions Bureau, London, to Roland Penrose; re. British Surrealist and abstract paintings exhibition in Northampton /7/1. 1 x exhibition notice / private view invitation (red on cream card) for 'Surrealism Today' exhibition, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 1940 /7/2. 1 x exhibition catalogue for 'Surrealism Today' exhibition, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 1940 /8. 1 x ts. letter, 11 March 1940, from Companies Registration Office to Twentieth Century Art Exhibitions Ltd. /9. 1 x ts. text with one ms. correction, n.d. [1937?], untitled text on Surrealism, Surrealist objects and frottage (by Max Ernst?), n.d. [1936 - 1940], 3p. /10. 5 x copies of pamphlet, n.d. [1936 - 1939], printed in black on both sides on yellow paper, entitled 'To the Workers of England', published by the Surrealist Group in London /11. 12 x copies of pamphlet, 10 copies printed on both sides in black over red image on yellow paper, 2 foldout copies printed on one side only, April 1937, entitled 'On the Occasion of the Artists' International Congress and Exhibition, WE ASK YOUR ATTENTION' /12. 1 x copy of 'Arson. An Ardent Review: Part One of a Surrealist Manifestation', published by Toni del Renzio, London, 1942 /13. 7 x copies of 'Idolatry and Confusion', pamphlet by J. B. Brunius and E. L. T. Mesens, March 1944 /14. 6 x copies of 'Message from Nowhere', edited by E. L. T. Mesens, London Gallery Editions, 1944 /15. 1 x copy 'Free Unions - Unions Libres', edited by Simon Watson Taylor, 1946 (this copy is inscribed to Roland Penrose inside the front cover by the editor)
Extent59 items
RepositoryScottish National Gallery of Modern Art Archive
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