Surreal encounters
Subtitle: collecting the marvellous : works from the collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch
By: edited by Annabelle Görgen, Keith Hartley and Saskia van Kampen-Prein ; with contributions from Dawn Ades [and 5 others]
Contributors: James, Edward, 1907-1984, collector; Keiller, Gabrielle, 1908-1995, collector; Pietzsch, Ulla, collector; Pietzsch, Heiner, collector
Publisher: National Galleries Of Scotland
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781906270971
Subjects: Surrealism; Exhibitions; Private collections
Notes: "In association with Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam."

Published in conjunction with exhibitions held at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, June 4 - September 11, 2016, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, October 7, 2016 - January 22, 2017, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, February 11 - May 28, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Roland Penrose.; title: Roland Penrose: Private Passions for the Public Good  -- Keith Hartley; title: Roland Penrose: The Quiet Collector  -- Antony Penrose; title: Edward James.; title: A ̀Born' Surrealist: Edward James as Collector, Artists' Friend and Patron of the Arts  -- Désirée De Chair; title: Edward James: The Pleasure Principle  -- Hubertus Gassner; title: Now or Never! The Edward James Foundation Makes Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen a Unique Offer  -- Saskia Van Kampen-Prein; title: Gabrielle Keiller.; title: Gabrielle Keiller Collects  -- Elizabeth Cowling; title: How Surrealism Came to Scotland  -- Richard Calvocoressi; title: Ulla And Heiner Pietzsch.; title: ̀Think, Examine and Decide': Living with Art The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection in the Context of Reception of Surrealism in Germany -- Annabelle Gorgen.