SURREALISM · ARTIST

Leonora Carrington

1917–2011 · British-Mexican · Surrealism
The escapee
Leonora Carrington

Carrington walked out on a wealthy English upbringing to paint a world of hyenas, horses, and alchemical rituals all her own, then built a second life in Mexico when the war scattered the movement. For decades the men got the headlines; she outlived nearly all of them and turned out to be one of the most original imaginations the group ever had.

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Featured works
Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
1938
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