Named_CollectionRoland Penrose
TitleSurrealism in Britain, 1930s and 1940s *
LevelFile
FormatDocument
Date1935 - [1959]
Ref_NoGMA A35/1/1/RPA642
Description/1. 1 x ms. draft letter, 8 November 1935, Roland Penrose to the editor of 'The Listener' on Surrealism, 2p. /2. 1 x ms. draft, with extensive amendments, entitled 'Realism vs. Surrealism', n.d.; Roland Penrose's speech for debate on Realism and Surrealism at Artists' International Association (AIA), March 1938, 5p. /3. 1 x ts. draft, with ms. amendments, partly in note form; untitled speech on Realism and Surrealism, dated 'c. 1939', 17p. /4. 1 x ms. text with some corrections, untitled, inscribed 'c. 1938' (by Roland Penrose at a later date); speech by Roland Penrose on his 'attitude to politics as an individual and as a member of the Surrealist Group', 12p. /5. 1 x ms. draft, with extensive corrections and inserted ts. transcript of text by Max Ernst on frottage; lecture by Roland Penrose, 'Exuberance is Beauty', n.d. [1936 - 1939], 13p. /6. 1 x ms. draft, with corrections; speech by Roland Penrose, 'Why I am a painter and why I am a Surrealist painter', n.d. [1938 - 1939], 13p. /7/1. 1 x ms. draft, with extensive corrections, n.d. [1937 - 1938], 'What's your enlistment number?', 2p. /7/2. 1 x ms. draft text/notes, n.d. [1939], untitled text starting 'What kind of a war is likely...', 1p. /7/3. 1 x sheet, pencil notes with corrections, n.d., untitled text starting 'The reason for the next war...', 1p. /8. 1 x ms. draft text with corrections, n.d. [c. 1940 - 1959], 'In Memory of a Brilliant Future' by Roland Penrose, 1p.
Extent67 sheets
RepositoryScottish National Gallery of Modern Art Archive
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