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Lee Miller displays photographs of his "most intimate Picasso"

An exhibition of 164 photographs that the U.S. Lee Miller became a friend Pablo Picasso, shown in Barcelona (northwestern Spain) the most intimate facet of the great Spanish painter (1881-1973).

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona will host until next September 16 the exhibit called "Lee Miller: Picasso in private", to mark the birth centenary of Miller (1907-1977).

The exhibition also exhibited for the first time that Picasso painted five portraits of Lee Miller, dressed in harlequin, with whom he maintained a friendship for 36 years.

The oil paintings were made in 1937, when Miller and Penrose spent the summer in Mougins, France, where he met Picasso.

The selection of photographs of Miller, who made more than a thousand photographs of Picasso, will show the family's artistic and author of "Ladies of Avignon".

In addition will be screened part of the production of Miller as a documentary photographer and advertising and as a war correspondent during World War II, as it was among the first to enter the concentration camps.

The photographs and writings of the artist Roland Penrose, Miller's husband and one of the most important Picasso biographers, is a brilliant record on the painter from Malaga.

The exhibition presents several different areas: one displays more than 100 snapshots made by Miller, Picasso and their environment, printed in the Lee Miller Archives.

They can be 52 photographs of the bold U.S. photographer and his life and 16 "vintage" or copies of time.

The exhibition will also include a documentary on the figure of the surrealist artist Roland Penrose, husband of Lee Miller and Picasso biographer.

The works of the exhibition, curated by Katherine Slush, come from the Lee Miller Archives, the Penrose Collection, the Museum Réattu (France) and private collections.

The organization of this exhibition with the close collaboration of Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and director of "Lee Miller Archives" and "Penrose Collection."

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