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“Surrealism certainly had roots in an imaginative obsession with torture and killing…” via Art in America

m a n  r a y  A R T I S T  coat stand, 1921

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coat stand, 1921

m a n  r a y A R T I S T  lee miller, 1929 reflected in this solarization portrait of his photography assistant and lover Lee Miller, Ray was best known in the Dada and Surrealist art world for his conceptual exploration of subject matter and technique.  

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lee miller, 1929

reflected in this solarization portrait of his photography assistant and lover Lee Miller, Ray was best known in the Dada and Surrealist art world for his conceptual exploration of subject matter and technique.  

P E G G Y  G U G G E N H E I M  a r t  c o l l e c t o r  seen here in 1941 at the Venetian Palazzo, her home and museum, holding Alexander Calder’s Arc of Petals, was an avid art collector transforming movements such as Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism of European and American art through her patronage. 

P E G G Y  G U G G E N H E I M  a r t  c o l l e c t o r 

seen here in 1941 at the Venetian Palazzo, her home and museum, holding Alexander Calder’s Arc of Petals, was an avid art collector transforming movements such as Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism of European and American art through her patronage.