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A fascinating examination of the ambitions and friendships of a talented group of midcentury women artists

Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five female friendships among the Surrealists to show how Surrealism, female friendship, and the experiences of war, loss, and trauma shaped individual womens transitions from someone elses muse to mature artists in their own right. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the front line.

Chadwick draws on personal correspondence between women, including the extraordinary letters between Leonora Carrington and Leonor...

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About the Author Whitney Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State - photo 1

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About the Author

Whitney Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University, and has written widely on 20th-century European and American art, surrealism and gender issues. She is the author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, the first full-length study of the women of surrealism, and her Women, Art, and Society is a required text in art history courses throughout the world. She has also contributed to exhibition catalogues on Sheila Hicks, Mona Hatoum, Wifredo Lam, Nalini Malani, Leonora Carrington and Lee Miller.

Other titles of interest published by
Thames & Hudson include:

Women, Art, and Society

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

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Contents

1. The Alchemy of Desire:
Valentine Penrose and Alice Rahon Paalen, India 1937

2. The Two Leonors:
Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini, Saint-Martin-dArdche, 193841

3. I Will Write to You with My Eyes
Frida Kahlo and Jacqueline Lamba Breton, Mexico and Paris, 193845

4. Soldiers without Names
Claude Cahun, Suzanne Malherbe and Jacqueline Lamba Breton, Jersey, 193845

5. Wars without End
Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose, 194078

The Women

Eileen Agar, English painter and surrealist

Hlne Azenor, French painter, writer and lover of Valentine Penrose after the Second World War

Jacqueline Lamba Breton, French painter and wife of poet Andr Breton, mother of Aube Ellout

Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer, descendant of the literary Schwob family, stepsister, lover and life partner of Suzanne Malherbe

Leonora Carrington, English painter and writer, lover of German Dadaist/surrealist Max Ernst

Leonor Fini, Argentine-born painter, designer, writer and cat-lover. Although close to the surrealists, never formally joined the group

Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, wife of painter Diego Rivera

Dora Maar, French photographer and painter, close friend to Jacqueline Lamba and lover of Pablo Picasso in the 1930s

Suzanne Malherbe (Marcel Moore), French illustrator and graphic designer, stepsister, lover and life partner of Claude Cahun

Lee Miller, American photographer, second wife of Roland Penrose

Alice Rahon Paalen, French/Mexican poet and painter, wife of painter Wolfgang Paalen

Valentine Bou Penrose, French poet and collagist, first wife of Roland Penrose

The Men

Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic who died at the end of the First World War. His work and his example influenced surrealism

Andr Breton, French writer, poet and founder of surrealist movement, husband of Jacqueline Lamba

Robert Desnos, French poet, initiator of surrealist trance states and proponent of automatic writing

Matta Echaurren, Chilean-born architect and painter who joined the surrealists in Paris in the 1930s

Paul Eluard, distinguished French poet and champion of the work of Valentine Penrose and others

Max Ernst, German Dadaist, joined the surrealist group in Paris in 1922, lover of Leonora Carrington

David Hare, American sculptor, second husband of Jacqueline Lamba

Nickolas Muray, Hungarian-born American portrait photographer, lover of Frida Kahlo

Roland Penrose, English painter, writer and wealthy patron of the surrealists, married to Valentine Bou and later to Lee Miller

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and among the best-known artists of the 20th century; close to the surrealists, but refused to officially join the group

Man Ray, American photographer and lover of Lee Miller, with whom he worked between 1929 and 1932

David Scherman, American photojournalist and lover of Lee Miller; encouraged her to become an accredited photographer and journalist

Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and a founder of the Dada group in Zurich in 1914

The Dealers

Peggy Guggenheim, American collector and patron of the surrealists. Her New York gallery, Art of This Century, played a critical role in introducing surrealism to New York and in exhibiting the work of the women of surrealism

Julien Levy, American who established galleries in New York and Paris that supported surrealist work; organized Frida Kahlos first exhibition in New York

Betty Parsons, American art dealer in 1940s New York who supported women artists and the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists, including Jackson Pollock

In the early summer of 1982 I drove to East Sussex with my husband and his teenage daughter to visit the painter Roland Penrose. I was writing my first book on the women artists of surrealism and the occasion was an invitation to visit Farley Farm, where Roland had settled in 1949 with his second wife, American photographer Lee Miller, and where much of his art collection still resided.

As we drove south toward the coast I rifled through the stack of questions I had laboriously prepared in anticipation of meeting Roland, a man who had lived a fabled life as the husband of two groundbreaking artists, Valentine Bou and Lee Miller, and the close friend of others from Pablo Picasso and Joan Mir to Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore. As an artist, writer and patron of the avant-garde during the interwar years, Roland had lived a history of surrealism; I could only hope to reinvent his experiences through hours of research. In my sometimes frustrating attempts to weave together the fraying threads of a fascinating historical era, I had drawn upon books and upon the stories my uncles told about life during the Second World War.

An hour later we entered the tiny hamlet of Muddles Green on a wave of soft breezes scented with roses and honeysuckle, mingled with a faint whiff of barnyard animal. In the distance lay the vast sweep of the Sussex Downs, dotted with gambolling lambs and placid but wary ewes. The village consisted of a few scattered farms and a cluster of sturdy houses, built to withstand inclement weather.

Abandoning the car on the verge, we located Farley Farm, pushed open a creaking gate and entered the garden. It was enclosed by brick walls and overlooked by an elegant 18th-century faade, softened by flowering hydrangeas, mature trees and rambling honeysuckle vines. Roland, a handsome man in his eighties, met us at the door.

Inside, he conducted us through rooms filled with light, colour and masterworks purchased from artist friends and fellow surrealists. Many of the works were familiar, thanks to Rolands generosity in allowing their reproduction in books and museum catalogues. As we walked, he pointed out his favourites and shared anecdotes about their creators.

Pausing before a large poster of Max Ernsts celebrated painting

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