Jackie Braun

1932–1934 · Lieu de travail

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 · Résidence

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.