their son antony penrose inherited from them and exquisite collection of modern art and a secret. but . after my mother died my late wife susanna came up here in the attic and she found that my mom had hidden her entire career there was something like sixty thousand negatives there one manuscript the well maps the letters she had told everybody that there was nothing left of her work has all been destroyed in the war but we found that there was absolutely an entire life here antony penrose turned his parent's home into a museum he's become one of the leading experts on his mother's life and the work. she invented herself many different times and. she started off being a tomboy that was the first life she had then she became a not student then she became a top fashion model and then she became a serious photographer and then that developed into being a studio and a commercial photographer and a fashion photographer and then she became a war correspondent and that wasn't enough so she became a combat photographer. man ray fell in love with lee miller in paris in one thousand nine hu

penrose to create something that was called the penrose triangle so this looks like a three dimensional object but could never really exist in three dimensions and he said it was in possibility in its purest form so this is totally amazing because penrose took that model showed it to his own father who was a geneticist who was also totally into creating these and elaborate puzzles and he came up with a model that later became known as the penrose staircase and when escher got wit wind of top of course he was captivated as penrose was with his initial exhibition and it incited him to make this print ascending and descending from nine hundred sixty nine that shows the typically ask and the continuum and it became one of his most famous images and that that penrose triangle you can also see here resurfacing as an impossible aqueduct and in waterfall so you had this incredible closed loop of inspiration with scientists in the artist actually feeding off one another at that time so fascinating totally fast i think i started you for bringing up karen hopes that more of the website absolute pl

to create a model that became known as the penrose stairway so now that was really interesting because when i got wind of that he actually published this he was completely enraptured and that led him to subsequently make this print we can have a look at it here ascending and descending it's called a visit from one thousand nine hundred in the toes shows the typically rest sort of endless continuum of life that became one of his most famous prints. and the penrose triangle is also resurfacing here in this work waterfall that you can see so there was this interesting loop closed loop of valuation between the scientists and the artist himself both feeding off one another as you sit there trying to work it out zero is not a word you can. look at the door at cardinal. literally inspect them for hours and it's quite fascinating so he has had a impact on popular culture beyond bathetic yeah well you can probably imagine that back in the late sixty's his sort of mind bending vision of the world fit very perfectly with the hippie counterculture he was championed to something of a godfather of p