The Last Journey of Captain Cook

Tate Gallery (London, Great Britain).

This sculpture was created specially for the grand international exhibition of Surrealists held in London in 1936. The unusual combination of objects characteristic of Surrealists is reflected in this work. The artist acquired the torso of the woman at the sale and painted it with bright colors, while the bicycle repair master created for him a maquette of the globe. Uniting these things and giving them a mysterious name, Penrose received a ready work that corresponds to all the main principles of Surrealism. The idea of the sculpture never revealed by the author, is assumingly in the fact that the woman represents the Earth, and the captain Cook was an investigator of everything mysterious and erotic.