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Leonora Carrington was an artist and writer. Her art is like a mashup of Beatrice Potter and Hieronymus Bosch, intricate and complicated with the nursery rhyme sweetness of Potter and dark edge of ...

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, ...

Leonora Carrington, "La Grande Dame" (1951), painted wood sculpture, 79 1/2 inches tall (~200 cm) (all images courtesy Sotheby's New York) Emerging on the market after nearly 30 years, a rare and ...

Leonora Carrington, the late British-Mexican artist known for mystical landscapes and fantastical creatures, was one of the last surviving Surrealists and a key figure of the movement. Despite decades ...

This year is also starting out on a strong note for Carrington. On January 21, Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco will open “Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis,” the gallery’s fifth Carrington ...

Gallery shot of Leonora Carrington's "Les Distractions de Dagobert" (1945) (all images courtesy Sotheby's) Born in Lancashire, England, Carrington was frequently at odds with her well-to-do family and ...

Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, the artist’s first-ever museum exhibition in New England, brings together over thirty works of art, some rarely seen, that span over six decades of Carrington’s ...

“Britain’s Lost Surrealist” reads the title of a mini-documentary on the Tate Britain ’ s website about Leonora Carrington, the brilliantly enigmatic painter who died in 2011. Were she here to respond ...

An endlessly unfolding gift / Wendi Norris -- Works -- Symposium -- Director's note / Jean Randich -- Leonora Carrington, tu país. An exhibition and a journey / Carlos Martín García -- Cauldrons and ...