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Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011 [2]) was a British-born, naturalized Mexican [1] surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. [ 3 ]
The painting reflects her influences from surrealism, but also from esoteric spirituality, like the Kabbala and alchemy, and Celtic mythology. Solomon Adler believes that the three feminine figures, at the left, can be interpreted as references to Carrington herself and other friends who shared some of her interests, like Spanish painter ...
The Hearing Trumpet is a 1974 surrealist novel by Mexican-British author Leonora Carrington. It follows the hard-of-hearing nonagenarian Marian, who is sent off to a peculiar old-age home by her family.
Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo and her friendship with the eccentric artist Leonora Carrington are the basis of “Alchemy of a Blackbird,” an inventive new historical novel by Cleveland ...
Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse) is a painting executed by artist Leonora Carrington and is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] [2] [3] She began the painting in London in 1937 and completed it in Paris in 1938. [4]
#27 Leonora Carrington (April 6, 1917 - May 25, 2011) Leonora Carrington was a key figure in the Surrealist movement, known for her dreamlike, imaginative works (The Collector, 2022) . Rebellious ...
The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) is a painting by Leonora Carrington. [1] The painting is considered one of her most famous works as it sold for almost $1.5 million in 2009. [2] Carrington created The Giantess c. 1947 in Mexico City after becoming a resident of Mexico in 1942. The tempera on wood panel painting is 117 x 68 cm.
Les Distractions de Dagobert is an oil on canvas painting by the British surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, from 1945.In May 2024, it sold for US$28.5 million (£22.5 million), a record for a UK-born woman artist.