Resumen de Roland Penrose and the Visitors' Book of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Jenifer Ramkalawon

• The visitors' book of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London is a curious anomaly in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. In a collection that contains over three million works on paper, the majority of which are old-master prints and drawings, it is a surprise to find a volume containing such a wealth of drawings by an extraordinary number of twentieth-century avant-garde artists within the 156 gilt-edged pages of this red leather- bound book. Artists such as Picasso, Miro, Man Ray, Dubuffet, Tipies and many others who visited the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950s and I960s provided drawings for the book which is one of the lesser-known treasures of twentieth-century art belonging to the British Museum.