Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's Surrealism collection is world famous, but this Boijmans Study is not devoted to the oeuvres of great names in the canon like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. Instead, it tells the story of the idiosyncratic finds made by the Dutch collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his wife Frida de Jong. Long before museums started to take notice, the couple had collected art and poetry by then relatively unknown Surrealists. Over the years, they let themselves be guided by c...

Lee Miller (1907-1977) had many lives: she was a model, muse, photographer, war correspondent and Surrealist chef. It is well known that she was 'discovered' on the street at nineteen and that her face appeared on the cover of Vogue a few months later, that she inspired numerous famous illustrators, photographers and artists, and that she flouted convention by picking up a camera and making a name for herself with seductive fashion photos, Surrealist experiments and penetrating war reports. T...

De collectie surrealisme van Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen geniet wereldwijd bekendheid. Toch is deze Boijmans Studie nu eens niet gewijd aan de oeuvres van gecanoniseerde namen als Salvador Dalí en René Magritte. In plaats daarvan wordt het verhaal verteld van de eigenzinnige vondsten van het Nederlandse verzamelaarsechtpaar Laurens Vancrevel en Frida de Jong. Lang voordat de musea er oog voor hadden verzamelden zij kunst en poëzie van op dat moment nog relatief onbekende surrealisten uit...