Tate Britain to Stage Largest Lee Miller Retrospective Featuring 230 Prints and Unseen Archives
Tate Britain presents the largest retrospective of photographer Lee Miller, opening October 2, 2025, and running through February 15, 2026. The exhibition features around 230 vintage and modern prints spanning Miller's career from her participation in French surrealism and work with Man Ray in Paris to her wartime reportage for British Vogue and coverage of post-liberation Europe. It includes unseen archival material, ephemera and extracts from her essays, with works on display for the first time such as Sirène (Nimet Eloui Bey) c.1930-32 and Portrait of Space 1937.
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The show highlights Miller's transnational network and positions her portraits of figures including Charlie Chaplin, Leonora Carrington, Isamu Noguchi and Dorothea Tanning as key post-war works. For collectors and curators the retrospective underscores sustained institutional interest in Miller's archive and the market value of her wartime and surrealist imagery, while the collaboration with the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago signals potential for further touring and scholarship.
- Artists: Lee Miller
- People: Hilary Floe, Saskia Flower, Michal Goldschmidt
- Museums: Tate Britain, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Art Institute of Chicago
- Locations: London
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