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LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011)
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signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington April 1960' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Enrique Alvarez Felix 1960 LEONORRA CARRINGTON.' (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.
Special Notice
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We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.