Farleys House

Farleys House near Chiddingly, East Sussex, England, has been converted into a museum and archive featuring the lives and work of its former residents, the photographer Lee Miller and the surrealist artist Roland Penrose. It also houses a collection of contemporary art by their friends Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró.

People

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose came to live at Farley Farm in 1949. In the 35 years they lived there, they built up a collection of contemporary art. Many of these works were made by their friends and visitors, including Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró.[1] The house is surrounded by a sculpture garden and Miller's vegetable patches.[2]

Picasso

Picasso visited Miller and Penrose at Farley Farm on 11 and 15 November 1950. On his second visit he created a drawing in Indian ink on two pages of the ICA visitors book (now in the British Museum), of bulls with grasshopper's wings perched on twigs; he had seen William, an Ayrshire bull, that day in the farm's dairy.

Art galleries

The collection and archives are curated by Miller and Penrose's son, the photographer Antony Penrose. A 19th-century barn was converted into a gallery in 2006, and a warehouse building became a larger gallery in 2020.[3] A regularly changing selection of artworks is displayed in the house.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Joanna Moorhead (5 April 2009). "Picasso came for tea". The Observer. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  2. ^ Penrose, Antony (2001). The Home of the Surrealists: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and their circle at Farley Farm. Francis Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-1726-3.
  3. ^ "The Galleries". Farleys House and Gallery. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Farleys House". Farleys House and Gallery. Retrieved 18 May 2025.

Further reading

  • Locke, Tim (2011). Slow South Downs & Sussex Coast. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-1-84162-343-6.

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