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LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)

Lot 103
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Lot 103 | LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 800 000
LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)
Sacrament at Minos
signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington 1954' (lower left)
oil on canvas
37 5/8 x 17 ¾ in. (95.5 x 45.2 cm.)
Painted in 1954




Provenance

Horacio Flores Sanchez, Guadalajara, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Private collection, United States, by 1994.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired in 1996; sale, Sotheby’s London, 3 February 2004, lot 82.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

J. J. Crespo de la Serna, ‘Diversidad de estilos y tendencias en una exposición’ in Novedades, México en la Cultura, Mexico City, July 1954 (illustrated).
J. J. Crespo de la Serna, En Algunas Galerías de Arte, Mexico City, 1955 (illustrated).
J. E. Pacheco, ‘Simpatias y diferencias’ in Revista de la Universidad de México, vol. XIV, no. 12, Mexico City, 1960, p. 32 (illustrated and titled ‘Testimonio Vivo’).
W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington: La realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 38, pp. 76 & 162. (illustrated p. 76).
S. C. Sacal, Trarazos y revelaciones Entrevistas a diez artistas mexicanos, Mexico City, 2004, p. 79 (illustrated).
H. Marquié, Métaphores surréalistes dans des imaginaires féminins quêtes, seuils et suspensions; souffles du surréel au travers d’espaces picturaux et chorégraphiques: Parcours dans les œuvres de Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey et Carolyn Carlson, Paris, 2000, p. 587.
Exh. cat., Traslaciones España México: pintura y escultura, 1977-2002, Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2002, p. 213.
S. L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, London, 2010, no. 70, p. 98 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2013, p. 93 (illustrated).
T. M. Bauduin, D. Zamani & V. Ferentinou, Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous, New York, 2018, pl. IX, p. 185 (illustrated p. 140).
G. Ingarao, Leonora Carrington: Un Viaggio nel Novecento, Dal Sogno Surrealista alla Magia del Messico, Pistoia, 2022.



Exhibited

Mexico City, Galería Diana, Seis Pintoras, Leonora Carrington, Elvira Gascón, Solange de Forge, Alice Rahon, Cordelia Urueta, Remedios Varo, July - August 1955.
Mexico City, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Leonora Carrington, February - March 1955, no. 39.
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Exposicion retrospecitva de pinturas y tapices de Leonora Carrington, July - August 1960, no. 40.
New York, Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, Masterpieces of Mexican Art, Ancient to Modern, September - October 1990.
Mexico City, Centro Cultural, Regards de femmes, 1993; this exhibition later travelled to Liège, Musée d’art moderne, October - December 1993, no. 49, p. 85 (illustrated).
Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Leonora Carrington, Una Retrospectiva, September - October 1994, no. 29, p. 93 (illustrated p. 92); this exhibition later travelled to Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, February - May 1995.
Mexico City, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Gustave Moreau y su legado, October 1994 - January 1995, no. 57.
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, on long term loan from 1995 until circa 1996.
Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, Leonora Carrington, October - November 1997, no. 25, pp. 35 & 68 (illustrated p. 68); this exhibition later travelled to Umeda-Osaka, Daimaru Museum, February 1998; Takayama, Hida Museum of Art, February - March 1998; and Mie, Prefectural Art Museum, April - May 1998.
New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Latin Century: Beyond the Border, August - November 2002, pp. 59 & 71 (illustrated p. 59).



Further Details

We are grateful to Dr Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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