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Sir Roland Algernon Penrose
Sir Roland was the grandson of James Doyle Penrose of Carlow and Robert Bowles' daughter Anne. Their son James Doyle Penrose (Jr.) was a noted painter in his own right but their grandson Sir Roland became very well known for his art. He was a surrealist painter, a contemporary and friend of Picasso, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and others. His brother, Lionel Penrose, was a noted British Psychiatrist and a pioneer in the field of mental retardation.
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Roland Algernon Penrose, CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. During the Second World War, although a Quaker and a pacifist, he put his artistic skills to practical use as a teacher of camouflage.
He was the son of James Doyle Penrose (1862–1932), a successful portrait painter, and Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, the daughter of Baron Peckover, a wealthy Quaker banker. He was the third of four brothers; his older brother was the medical geneticist Lionel Penrose. Roland grew up in a strict Quaker family in Watford and attended Leighton Park School, Reading, Berkshire. After studying architecture at Queens' College, Cambridge, Penrose switched to painting and moved to France, where he lived from 1922 and married his first wife the poet Valentine Boué. During this period he became friends with most of the leading Surrealists including Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Paalen and Max Ernst who would have the strongest influence on his work.
Some examples of his work:
This one, while considered to be an example of his surrealist artwork, is actually a photograph of his partner Lee Miller covered with a camouflage net and some foliage which he used to capture his audience's attention when instructing soldiers on camouflage techniques during WW II.
