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Leonora Carrington







 

Leonora Carrington

(b Clayten Green, nr Chorley, Lancs, 6 April 1917).

Mexican painter, sculptor and writer of English birth. In 1936 she travelled to London, where she studied under Amédée Ozenfant and in 1937 met Max Ernst, with whom she became involved artistically and romantically, leading to her association with Surrealism. They moved to Paris together in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II, Ernst was interned as an enemy alien, and Carrington escaped to Spain, where she was admitted to a private clinic after having a nervous breakdown; she later recounted the experience in her book En bas (1943). After marrying the Mexican poet Renato Leduc in 1941 (a marriage of convenience), she spent time in New York before settling in Mexico in 1942, devoting herself to painting. There she and Remedios Varo developed an illusionistic Surrealism combining autobiographical and occult symbolism. Having divorced Leduc in 1942, in 1946 she married the Hungarian photographer Imre Weisz.

 

Self-Portrait
1937–38


 

Temple of the word
1954


 

Big Badger Meets the Domino Boys
1986


 

Labyrinth
1991


 

Sidhe the White People of the Tuatha de Danaan
1954


 

Les distractions de Dagobert
1945


 

Pastoral
1950


 

Help


 

Good Morning Dr Fischer


 

Portrait of Max Ernst
1939


 

Les Distractions de Dagobert
1945


 

The Magdalens
1986


 

Pig Rush
1960


 

Horses of Lord Candlestick
1938


 

The Meal of Lord Candlestick
1938


 

The House Opposite
1945


 

Amor che move il Sole et l'altre Stelle
1946


 

Green Tea
1942


 

Portrait of the Late Ms Partridge
1947


 

And then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur
1953


 

Semaine
1956


 

The Giantess
1950


 

Who Art Thou White Face?
1959


 

Adieu Ammenotep
1960


 

The Burning of Giordano Bruno
1964


 

Chinese at a Fountain
1967


 

Arca de Noe
1967


 

Boceto, Mundo Magico de los Mayas,
1965


 

Peackocks of Chen
1971


 

Crookhey Hall
1947


 

Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick
1970


 

Around Wall Street or portrait of Pablo in NY
1973


 

The Daring Young Men in the Purple Baloon
1970


 

Ikon
1988