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Edward James (1907-1984) was born on the West Dean estate in Sussex. He was the youngest of Evelyn Forbes’s five children and her only son. Evelyn Forbes was the illegitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales and a society beauty who, according to her son, didn’t really like children very much. The father of Edward James, William Dodge James, earned fortunes in the wood industry and the American railway, but was always away travelling.
From a young age, Edward wanted to be a writer. His grave stone states: ‘poet’. James collected and supported the surrealists in the thirties. He spent his whole life in a fantasy world, created partly by himself, partly by others. A documentary has been made about his life’s work, the sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico entitled: Edward James. Builder of Dreams.
Channels: Contemporary Art
Artists: Ewoud van RijnRené Magritte
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