ID 1380188
Lot 101 | LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 700 000
Elohim
signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington 1960' (lower left); inscribed 'Eluhim' (lower right)
oil and sgraffito on board
35 7/8 x 14 ¾ in. (91.1 x 37.5 cm.)
Painted in 1960
Provenance
Sir Crispin Tickell, a gift from the artist in 1961, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. P. Eburne & C. McAra, Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde, Manchester, 2017, p. 215 (illustrated fig. 12.18).
J. Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, London, 2017, p. 279.
Exhibited
London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington, Paintings, drawings and sculptures 1940-1990, December 1991 - January 1992, no. 42, pp. 29 & 110; this exhibition later travelled to Preston, The Harris Museum, March 1992 and Bristol, Arnolfini, April - May 1992.
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, June - September 2010, no. 35 p. 38 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, September - December 2010.
Liverpool, Tate, Leonora Carrington, March - May 2015.
London, Tate Modern, International Surrealism, January 2017 - March 2018.
London, Tate Modern, on long term loan from 2009 until 2024.
Further Details
We are grateful to Dr Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
| Artist: | Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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