... were devout Quakers who raised Penrose alongside his three brothers according to a strict moral and religious code. After WW2 he married the American photographer Lee Miller. She died in 1977. As well as being a painter and sculptor Penrose used his money to promote art and fund other artists. He also wrote many books including one about Pablo Picasso. In 1937 he painted ‘Seeing is Believing - The Invisible Isle’ which was oil paint on canvas. The island in this paintings title does not have much natural landscape instead it is made of other elements, some building shapes, an upside down head hanging from a sky that starts off as a night sky, then turns into rainy storm clouds, then proceeds to become blue and almost sunlit. It also has a strange hand rising up from the bottom of the painting. I think the painting could also be viewed upside ...

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