Roland Penrose – Good Shooting (Bien Visé), 1939, Oil on Canvas © Lee Miller Archives, England 2026.
Surrealism burst onto the British scene in June 1936 with the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Ninety years on Treasure House Fair will commemorate that seminal show with a display of forty masterpieces from Southampton City Art Gallery, rarely shown together until now. London’s flagship summer fair is at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea from June 25-30. No less than 60 galleries have convened on the grounds for a fair spanning millennia and continents, from a 25,000 year old woolly mammoth head to the iconic coloured photograph of earth taken from Apollo 8 in 1968. The exhibition on Surrealism will bring together celebrated figures such as Paul Delvaux and Giorgio de Chirico, alongside prominent British Surrealists, many of whom took part in the landmark 1936 exhibition. It will feature Roland Penrose, Paul Nash, John Banting, Sam Haile, Conroy Maddox, Reuben Mednikoff, Desmond Morris and Peter Rose Pulham.
David Hockney, OM, CH, RA – The Student: Homage to Picasso (1973) etching and Aquatint 76/90.
© Christopher Kingzett, London
