Leonora Carrington developed a long career in Mexico after fleeing wartime Europe, combining Celtic myth, alchemy, feminism, animals and invented rituals in painting and fiction. Her work resists the passive muse role often assigned to women around Surrealism.
Painting; sculpture; writing; tapestry
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
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Major Works
- Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
- The House Opposite
- The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg)
- The Meal of Lord Candlestick
- The Pomps of the Subsoil
- And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur
- The Old Maids
- Adieu Amenhotep
- The Magical World of the Mayans
- Crocodile
Interviews & Writing
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