Picnic. She took it in 1937, and it captures the wild spirit of the island of Sainte-Marguerite off the Côte d'Azur. In the picture, Miller's lover, the surrealist artist Roland Penrose; the poet Paul Eluard and his artist wife, Nusch; Miller's former lover, the artist Man Ray, and his new partner, the dancer Adrienne ('Ady') Fidelin, all recline, in the manner of Monet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, on floor cushions around a low picnic table.
Their bodies are bathed in the dappled light of eucalyptus trees; the women are topless.It is thought that this bohemian group was staying, along with their friend Picasso, at the Hôtel Vaste Horizon in Mougins, above Cannes, at the time.
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