Leonora Carrington - The Virtues of Rebellion New York Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
    Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hill, Mexico City (acquired in 1950)
    Manuela Amor de Hill, Mexico City
    Private Collection (by descent from the above)
    Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
    Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above)
    Phillips, New York, May 24, 2017, lot 20
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington. Paintings, drawings and sculptures 1940-1990, December 11, 1991 - January 26, 1992, no. 19, pp. 13, 21, 109
    Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington. Una Retrospectiva, September - November 1994, no. 15, p. 142 (illustrated, p. 78)
    Tokyo Station Gallery; Umeda Osaka, Dairu Museum; Hida Takayama Museum of Art; Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, October 14, 1997 - May 5, 1998, no. 18, pp. 59, 135 (illustrated, p. 59; titled as Pastoral (Angel Hunters) )
    Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Suntory Museum; Nagoya City Art Museum; Kochi, The Museum of Art, Women Surrealists in Mexico, July 19, 2003 - February 22, 2004, no. 62, p. 124 (illustrated; titled as Pastoral (Angel Hunters) )

  • Literature

    Juan García Ponce and Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Mexico City, 1974, p. 22 (illustrated)
    Whitney Chadwick, Leonora Carrington. La realidad y la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 23, p. 161 (illustrated, p. 61)
    Susan L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, New York, 2010, no. 49, p. 76 (illustrated, p. 77)

  • Artist Biography

    Leonora Carrington

    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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Pastoral

signed “Leonora Carrington” lower left
oil on canvas
21 x 29 in. (53.3 x 73.7 cm)
Painted in 1950.

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The Virtues of Rebellion