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Where do dreams come from? Questions about their origin are worth asking on occasion, especially when a sampling of the work of the prolific, late Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is ...
A painting by Lancashire-born artist Leonora Carrington has sold for more than £22 million. Sotheby’s says the sale of Carrington’s Les Distractions de Dagobert means she is the most valuable ...
Leonora Carrington's 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobert sold for $28.5 million with fees on Wednesday night during Sotheby's evening sale for modern and contemporary art, setting a record ...
Evoking themes of femininity, self-representation, transformation, and myth, “Deux Femmes” is a small but engaging show of prints, drawings, and paintings by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). When ...
Dr. Susan Aberth, prominent cultural historian and leading Leonora Carrington scholar, has observed, “Like the alchemical processes of distillation and transmutation that abound in her work, ...
Elizabeth Hobbs, an animated filmmaker based in London, utilized her dynamic, sketchy style to depict “The Debutante.” Her rendition captured the comical, lighthearted nature of the story while ...
British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth.
Leonora Carrington, an outstanding figure of surrealism, along with Frida Kahlo, was one of Mexico's most famous painters. As the long-time partner of Max Ernst and close friend of André Breton ...