$4,000
Leonora Carrington (England, 1917 - 2011) unframed colored pencil drawing, signed to lower left "Leonora Carrington", & with surrealistic depiction of magicians. Measures 14" in height with width of 12". Complete with certificate of authenticity, please see photographs. Provenance: from the estate of a prominent European & Texas collector, known to not only to have collected quite an assortment of notable art, but to have befriended a vast majority of the artists of whose work was acquired. In overall good condition, all measurements are approximate.Leonora Carrington was born in Lancashire, England to a wealthy family, & was brought up in European convents & finishing schools. Despite her extensive training in decorum, she painted in a very un-lady-like manner, with her first surrealist pictures being heavy with sex and horror. In 1936 she enrolled at the Amedee Ozenfant Academy in London, and was impressed by the First International Surrealist Exhibition. The next year she met Max Ernst, who was lecturing in England and returned with him to France, where they lived and worked together for the next three years, eventually settling in the South to avoid the social conflicts within the Surrealist circle in Paris. In 1940 she fled to Spain to escape the Nazis but she suddenly went mad and spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum. She made her way in 1942 to Mexico, where she lived out the rest of her life. Carrington struggled back over that precipice and still struggled Read more…
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2017-02-18
