another amazing rich freak: edward james
Monkton House
Dining Room
Monkton House
1986
"First International Surrealist Exhibition"
London,
1936
L to R
Salvador Dali, Edward James, Paul Eluard, Eileen Agar, Herbert Read,
Stellan Mörner, Nucsch Eluard, Roland Penrose, ELT Mesens.,
Diana Brinton Lee, and Rupart Lee.
Salvador Dali
"Chair"
1936
Man Ray
"Photograph of Edward James"
1937
Rene Magritte
Oil on Canvas
"Pleasure Principle"
1937
Salvador Dali
"Lobster Telephone"
1938
Salvador Dali with Edward James
"Mae West Lips Sofa"
1938
Andre Derain
Body Mask for Bearded Genie from
"Fastes"
1933
Edward James
Chillin' in his pool with bust
by
Isamu Noguchi
"Map Room"
Really? "Map Room"? More like
"BJ Room"
Monkton House
1986
Tilly Losch
"Footprint Carpet"
1930s
West Dean House
1995
Rene Magritte
"The Future of Statues"
1937
Mariana Yampolsky
Xilitia
1996
Mariana Yampolsky
Xilitia
1996
Mariana Yampolsky
Xilitia
1996
Mariana Yampolsky
Xilitia
1996
Edward James
in
Xilitia
Eddie James
in front of his Salvador Dali
"Sleep"
Ed with
"Dream of Venus"
model
1939
Ed and Sal
discussing
"Dream of Venus"
New York World's Fair
1939
Norman Parkinson
"Edward James on the stairway of
35 Wimpole Street"
Late 1930s
Paul Nash
Bathroom for
35 Wimpole Street
1930s
Norman Parkinson
"Edward James and Igor Markevitch
in the 'Tent Room' at
35 Wimpole Street"
Late 1930s
Corridor
Monkton House
Entrance to
Plutarco Gastelum's House
Xilitla
1993
Mariana Yampolsky
Xilitia
1996
Edward with
Liz Guinness (va-voom),
Poppy and Zita Lloyd,
Jasimine Guinness and Patrick Guinness
Cecil Beaton
"Edward James"
Late 1930s
Cecil Beaton
"Edward James"
1948
Cecil Beaton
"Edward James"
1948
Cecil Beaton
"Edward James"
1948
Norman Parkinson
"Edward Kames with Igor Markevitch
and his wife at 35 Wimpole Street"
Late 1930s
Norman Parkinson
"Edward James with Rene Magritte's
'The Future of Statues'"
1930s
Edward James posing behind
a mountain
of
Kleenex tissue boxes
and
firelighters(?)
at
Monkton House
(Nearing the end....)
Edward James
1907-1984
Recommended reading:
"Swans Reflecting Elephants,
My Early Years"
and
"A Surreal Life
Edward James"
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