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LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)

Lot 104
28.02.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 104 | LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)
Estimate value
£ 900 000 – 1 400 000
LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)

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signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington April 1960' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Leonora Carrington 1960 Enrique Alvarez Felix' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

47 1/4 x 35 1/2 in. (120 x 90.2 cm.)

Painted in 1960





Provenance

María Félix, Mexico City; her sale, Christie's, New York, 18 July 2007, lot 386.

Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2007.



Literature

M. Carson, 'Leonora Carrington: The Story of the Last Egg', in Review: Literature and Art of the Americas, vol. 53, no. 1, June 2020 (illustrated on the cover).

G. Subelyte & D. Zamani, Surrealism and Magic, Enchanted Modernity, exh. cat., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2022, p. 239 (illustrated).



Exhibited

San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery, Talismanic Lens: Leonora Carrington, February - March 2008, no. 9, p. 33 (illustrated on the cover and p. 32).

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales, April - September 2018, no. 96, pp. 266-269 and 471 (illustrated p. 268); this exhibition later travelled to Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, October - February 2019.

New York, Gallery Wendi Norris, Leonora Carrington: The Story of the Last Egg, May - June 2019.



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Post Lot Text

We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Artist:Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Mexico
Auction house category:Paintings
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