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A pine settle and table from Lambe Creek Furniture from Lambe Creek. Main table for meals used at Lambe Creek in summer of 1937 by Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Leonora Carrington, Henry Moore, Paul Eluard etc. The summer party that is now known as 'The Surrealists in Cornwall.' From Lambe Creek the items were moved by the owners Annie 'Spitfire' Penrose and Beacus Penrose, to the family home of Killiow, near Truro in Cornwall. Here they served Max Ernst again, most notably when he stayed in 1951 with his wife Dorothea Tanning. Ernst was producing material for an exhibition he was mounting and he noticed the pronounced whorls and knots in the grain of the table. Using paper and pencil he created frottages of owls from the whorls and these formed part of the exhibition. Although the owners moved in highly artistic and theatrical circles (Beacus Penrose had been the lover of Dora Carrington and Annie Penrose had been married to the actor Robert Newton) they also entertained politicians, admirals of the fleet, field marshals, and peers. Other great names that we know to have sat and eaten at this table and settle include Augustus John, John Betjeman, A.L. Rowse, Daphne Du Maurier and Boy Browning. Actors - Robert Newton, John Mills and Family, Richardsons, Googie Withers and John McCullum etc. Condition Report: Size of table top 66 x 32ins, height 29ins.
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