©Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Lee Miller as Arlesienne 1937

Picasso Portrait of Lee Miller as Arlesienne 1937
Portrait of Lee Miller as Arlesienne
1937 oil/canvas
Musée Picasso, Paris, France

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Picasso and Lee Miller in Picasso’s studio
Picasso and Lee Miller
in Picasso’s studio

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Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
Pablo Picasso painted six portraits of Lee Miller in 1937, during the summer the artist spent in Mougins with Miller and Roland Penrose, Paul and Nusch Éluard, Man Ray and Ady Fidelin, Eileen Agar and Joseph Bard, as well as his then lover, Dora Maar.