leonora Carrington, Mixed Media on paper (Style...

Updated August 6, 2026

Of). This lot consists of a hand painted Mixed Media on paper in the style of the painter Leonora Carrington. Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917-Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer who became a Mexican national.She was born on April 6, 1917 in the village of Chorley, in Lancashire, England. In 1936 she entered the Ozenfant Academy of Art in London. The following year she met the person who indirectly introduced her to the surrealist movement: the German painter Max Ernst, whom she met again on a trip to Paris and with whom she soon established a romantic relationship. During his stay in that city he came into contact with the surrealist movement and lived with notable figures of the movement such as Joan Miró and André Breton, as well as with other painters who gathered around the table at the Café Les Deux Magots, such as the painter Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.Image Size: 9 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches. All measurements are approximate.

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