Julien Levy, Paris
Hommage à Julien Levy - Part 2, Tajan, Paris, June 8, 2006, lot 251
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
University Park, Palmer Museum of Art; Pennsylvania State University; Chestnut Hill, The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College; Knoxville Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art, Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy, September 14, 2004 - March 19, 2006, p. 118
New York, Di Donna, Surrealism in Mexico, April 26 - June 28, 2019, no. 19, pp. 17, 116 (illustrated, pp. 17, 116)
British / Mexican • 1917 - 2011
At the core of Leonora Carrington's Surrealist oeuvre is a preoccupation with gender and feminist issues. Born to a wealthy family in Lancashire, England, Carrington demonstrated an interest in art at a young age and enrolled at Chelsea School of Art in London. Carrington first became interested in Surrealism after having attended the 1939 International Surrealist Exhibition, and later entered into a relationship with German Surrealist painter Max Ernst.
Like many European intellectuals and artists, Carrington fled war-torn Europe and settled in Mexico where she was greatly influenced by the cultural and religious syncretism. Carrington's unique Surrealist aesthetic is one that often features females as the central figure and includes fairytale-like imagery.
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