Drome. Artist Lee Miller, whose biopic was released in theaters, photographed Postman Cheval’s Ideal Palace

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A meeting with Picasso, Éluard…

In the summer of 1937, while Lee Miller was living in Egypt, she visited Europe in the company of Roland Penrose, surrealist artist and curator, whom she had met a few weeks earlier. The couple visited the south of England, before crossing France to join Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso, Paul and Nusch Eluard in Mougins on the French Riviera. On the road, they stop at Hauterives to discover the ideal palace of postman Cheval, where Lee takes a series of photographs.

To interpret it in the cinema, American actress Kate Winslet spent 7 years of her life working on it, researching it with Lee Miller’s son, Antony Penrose. Also a producer of the film, Kate Winslet gave her body and soul to this project which will be released in theaters on October 9.