| Description | note: the numbers in brackets are the exhibition catalogue numbers.
Photographs(prints unless stated) of:-
1. Cast of the Brassempouy Head (prehistoric art) (cat.1) : negs,contacts & prints. (Vogue)
2. Tibetan wood mask,17th century (117). 2 copies
3. No Theatre mask, Japan. (173). 2 copies..
4. Maori tatooed human head (138). x2.
5. Ibibio (African) wood mask (140 or 151)
6. Henry Moore: Helmet Head 1950 (76). x3. ( Mrs Webster Plass Collection)
7. painting of Siwa as Ascetic with Ganges.. (67)
8. Romano-British medusa head from Bath. (47)
9. Detail from French medieval MS.(132)
nos.10-53 are small photos in same envelope;many are photographs made from plates in books.
10. Hieronymous Bosch drawing of 2 monsters. (230). x3.
11. School of Archimboldo double image (illusion) of head as landscape (212).x2 Vogue.
12.Le Livres des Merveilles (229).
13. Pavel Tchelichew.The Lady of Shalott. (112).Vogue.
14. Bosch. Calvary.(177)
15-53 : 39 other photos,(+ negs.of 5 of them) of various works of art & illustrations,including : drawings of Kachinas from Bureau of American Ethnology book;plates from Prinzhorn's book on art of the mentally ill; Brancusi; Brassai; Hogarth; Goya; Victor Brauner; various ethnographic art & Easter Island; Rubens... most have enlargement details on verso.
54. Ankor Wat temples, Cambodia :4 photos(2 by Eliot Elisofon(Life),cut, -one is prob.cat.125; + 2 in envelope addressed to Roland Penrose p/m 25.1.1953, labelled by him 'Ankor photos'
55. Gericault,Theodore.Head of Dying Man.(106) x3.
56. Sansovino. Madonna & Child sculpture.(prob. 71) 2 photos(1 Vogue)
57. Mexico.Sugar skull(popular art)(prob.115).
58. Man decorating sugar skulls.
59. Mexican figure of devil? (57-59 photos by Gisele Freund,Magnum.)
60. Ancient Egyptian art: statue of daughter of Amenophis1V-photo in exhibition? x2 Vogue.
61. Mask with cobra headdress (in exhibition?)
62. Statue of buddha/god with multiple heads
63. head of statue of Asian god. (61-3 Press Agency photos)
nos 64-66 are large photos.
64. 2 photos prob. from lithographs after Charles le Brun,Physionomic Relations Between Man and Animals. (prob. 197)
65. Greek vase painting figure of man. (in exhibition?)
66. Plate from Strand Magazine: foreshortened heads (torn) Inscribed on verso by Roland Penrose:'distortion or Lee'.
nos 67-74 are in the same envelope
67. Durer print :2 photos,one mounted on card.
68. Prie-Dieu in style of Louis 14 (sun king head motif). Photo by Roger Viollet.
69. Gargoyle from Notre Dame
70. Medieval Venice mosaic
71. Gericault. Heads of mad man & woman. 2 photos
72. Hieronymous Bosch triptych, with part of photo to be used indicated by Roland Penrose.
73. Man with tray of noses (Mexican?)
74. Small photo of baby
75. X- ray photo of a skull (probably displayed in the exhibition. Was in envelope sent to RP by Magnum Photos,Paris)
Various images: reproductions,postcards & cuttings, which may have been shown in the exhibition,or used in organisation/preparation of it. 1953 note: numbers follow from material in other Items
76. reproduction of painting of grotesque head (? Hieronymous Bosch)
77. Grunewald's Isenheim Alterpiece:reproduction in 2pp cutting from Life (note: cat.no.176 was photograph of head in this)
78. newscutting from 'Life' magazine; 5pp.; death masks. (not in catalogue,but may have been in a montage?)
79. newscutting, from 'Illustrated London News',16.7. 1949; 2p.; on earliest realistic portrait in ancient art (the illustration is missing)
80. Postcards,13, of ethnographic art, from Musée de L'Homme & Trocadero,Paris
& Horniman Museum,London- including Pre-Columbian, African, Asian, Mexican, British Columbian (North American), Amazon Indian. Mostly of heads. One mounted on board. (One of these was originally affixed to a sheet from RPA 400/84).
81. Pentacle de L'Abbe Julio : 4 printed images from series,each inscribed by Valentine Penrose
82. catalogue of Hundertwasser exhibition,Vienna,Jan-Feb 1953,featuring reproductions of heads by the artist.
Contents of box marked 'Popular Imagery & Advertising'
Popular images & advertising (postcards, illustrations, photographs)which may have been shown in the exhibition or used in organisation/preparation of it. 1953 Note: a section of the exhibition consisted of montages of Popular images & Advertising, designed by Lee Miller. It was not itemised in the catalogue (but see Installation photos in other Item). It is not known if all the material in this Item relates to this section, and some was probably just collected in preparation but not used. It was found mixed with the other Wonder and Horror material. Numbers follow from other Items.
83. Photographs of Shell adverts (9)- 7 with reversible heads designed by Rex Whistler
84. Various images from adverts & periodicals, cut out and pasted to 7 sheets of paper(glue stained & torn). One image has been removed from a sheet and is now filed with RPA 400/80.
85. Popular French romantic postcards for lovers (9) (found in groups of 6 & 2 in box & folder). Feature small heads.
86. Popular French postcards, with various heads on them (5). Probably date from c.1905, and 1920s. Some have messages with no apparent link to Roland Penrose.
87. Postcard reproduction of painting by J.J.Henner of woman's head
(W & H box & file,SB & SO)
89. ICA Director's compliments slip, inscribed on verso: Robert Melville has taken photo of 159. (note:Melville one of organisers) |