Art Institute of Chicago
Camera Obscura
Roland Penrose · 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to William N. Copley, Los Angeles, 1959; sold Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 5 or 6, 1979, lot 289, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Possibly London, Mayor Gallery, "Roland Penrose" 1939, cat. 10, 11, 12, or 13.
- Santa Barbara, University of California Art Gallery, "Surrealism: A State of Mind, 1924-1965," 1966, cat. 53 (ill.).
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," 1984–1985, p. 201 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Harriet Janis and Rudi Blesh, Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques (Philadelphia, 1962), p. 96, fig. 108.
- Kurt von Meier, "Los Angeles Letter," Art International 10 (Apr. 20, 1966), p. 69 (ill.).
- Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 214-15, cat. 105 (color ill.).
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