“I painted for myself...I never believed anyone would exhibit or buy my work.”
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Leonora Carrington
Mary Leonora Carrington was a British and Mexican surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
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culture · British and Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist (1917–2011) · painter · scenographer · novelist · draftsperson · sculptor · artist · writer · also Leonora Carrington, Mary Leonora Carrington, Carrington
Born 6 April 1917 · Died 25 May 2011 · Q233207
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2026· 4 entries
“We, women, are animals conditioned by maternity.... For female animals love-making, which is followed by the great drama of the birth of a new animal, pushes us into the depths of the biological cave.”
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2022· 1 entry
The Venice Biennale 59th International Art Exhibition was titled The Milk of Dreams
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2015· 2 entries
Career landmark: Google Doodle.
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Carrington was honoured through a Google Doodle commemorating her 98th birthday
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2013· 1 entry
Carrington was the subject of a major retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
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2011· 1 entry
Died 2011-05-25.
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2010· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in Pinta Art Show (tournament / event).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (2005).
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Christie's auctioned Carrington's Juggler (El Juglar), and the realised price was USD $713,000, setting a new record for the highest price paid at auction for a living surrealist painter
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (1986).
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1973· 1 entry
Carrington designed Mujeres conciencia, a poster for the Women's Liberation movement in Mexico, depicting a 'new Eve
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1963· 1 entry
To create a mural which she named El Mundo Magico de los Mayas, and which was influenced by folk stories from the region
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1947· 2 entries
At the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City
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For her work at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York
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1942· 1 entry
Leduc and Carrington went to Mexico—where many European artists fled in search of asylum—which she grew to love and where she lived, on and off, for the rest of her life
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1939· 1 entry
Carrington and Ernst painted portraits of each other
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1938· 1 entry
Left Paris and settled in Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche in southern France
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1937· 1 entry
Carrington met Ernst at a party at the Goldfingers' in London with Sari Dienes, who was a friend of Ernst
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1936· 1 entry
Carrington saw the work of the German Surrealist Max Ernst at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London and was attracted to him before she even met him
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1935· 2 entries
Carrington's first essay, "Jezzamathatics or Introduction to the Wonderful Process of Painting", was published before her story "The Seventh Horse
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Attended the Chelsea School of Art in London for one year, and with the help of her father's friend Serge Chermayeff, she was able to transfer to the Ozenfant Academy of Fine Arts established by the French modernist
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1927· 1 entry
At the age of ten, she saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery in Paris and later met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-04-06.
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1911· 1 entry
A photographer and the darkroom manager for Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War
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