two years at the Lefevre Gallery. Principal group exhibitions 1927, December – New English Art Club, London 1929, October – London Group, London 1931, October – Recent Developments in British Painting, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London 1932 – British Art, Hamburg Kunstverein 1933, October – Art Now – Mayor Gallery, London 1934, April – Unit One – Mayor Gallery, London and provincial tour 1935 – Exposition international d'Art Modern – Brussels, Belgium 1936, June – International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London 1936, December – Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1937, May – Unity of Artists for Peace, Democracy and Cultural Development, Artists International Association, London 1938, January – Exposition internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1939, July – British Painters, New York World's Fair, USA, and North American Tour 1940, June – Surrealism Today, Zwemmer Gallery, London 1951, May – Sixty Paintings for '51, Arts Council (Festival of Britain), London 1957, October – Contemporary British Art, Paris, France 1959, November – Three Contemporary English Artists (with Derrick Greaves and Hubert Dalwood), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 1965 – The English Eye, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, USA, London 1978, January – Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Hayward Gallery, London 1982, February – A Sense of Place: Edward Burra and Paul Nash, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA 1987 – British Art in the Twentieth Century, Royal Academy of Art, London 1997 – Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London 2001, February – Watercolour, Tate Britain, London Ballet, opera and theatre productions designed by Burra A Day in a Southern Port (Rio Grande), Camargo Society, Savoy Theatre, London, 29 November 1931 Barbarau, Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 17 April 1936 Miracle in the Gorbals, Sadler's Wells Ball, Princes Theatre, London, 26 October 1944 Carmen, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 14 January 1947 Don Juan, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 25 November 1948 Don Quixote, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 20 February 1950 Canterbury Prologue (the ballet was previewed under the title Surprise Ballet, Royal Hall, Harrogate, 19 July 1951), Ballet Rambert, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 30 July 1951; King's Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 15 October 1951 Simply Heavenly, Adelphi Theatre, London, 20 May 1958 Books illustrated by Burra Lee, Laurie, The Voyage of Magellan: A Dramatic Chronicle for Radio, London: John Lehmann