Lee MillerAmerican, 1907–1977Jackie Braun
May one see it?
Not receiving at present
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- P1984.20
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Meanwhile, in the life of Lee Miller
The whole life1932–1934 · Workplace
New York City
1933
Her only solo exhibition, at Julien Levy's
In 1933 Julien Levy gave Miller the only solo exhibition of her life. Her portrait clients included the Surrealist Joseph Cornell, the actresses Lilian Harvey and Gertrude Lawrence, and the African-American cast of the Virgil Thomson–Gertrude Stein opera “Four Saints in Three Acts” (1934).
1934
Abandons her studio for Egypt
In 1934 Miller abandoned her studio to marry the Egyptian businessman and engineer Aziz Eloui Bey, who had come to New York to buy equipment for the Egyptian National Railways, and moved with him to Egypt.
1934
Married: Aziz Eloui Bey
1934–1937 · Residence
Cairo
1937
Back in Paris, she meets Roland Penrose
By 1937 Miller had grown bored with life in Cairo. Returning to Paris, she went to a party on the very day she arrived, where she made up with Man Ray and met the British Surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose, her future husband; they soon became lovers.
