Reuben Mednikoff - Artist Info

About Reuben Mednikoff

Name variants

Reuben Mendikoff, Richard Pailthorpe
  • Biography

    "Lives of the Artists Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff" by Michel Remy, Autumn 2018, Website of Tate Gallery

    Introducing the British surrealists who formed a fascinating and unsettling partnerships:

    When Grace Pailthorpe (1883–1971) and Reuben Mednikoff (1906–1972) first met at a party in London in January 1935, nobody could imagine they were to become among the most intriguing and controversial figures in the history of surrealism*.

    Reuben Mednikoff, aged 29, was a young poet and artist who was fascinated by what he was hearing and reading about surrealism. Pailthorpe, aged 52, remarkably a surgeon in the First World War, had been researching the psychological treatment of juvenile delinquency, ref...

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