A towering sculpture by Leonora Carrington sold at Sotheby’s New York last night for $11.4 million, making it the most valuable sculpture by the Surrealist ever sold at auction. Titled La Grande Dame ...
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Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild – the week in art
Konrad Mägi is given his time to shine, Fiona Banner hits a word-picture high and Carrington takes over the home of Sigmund Freud ...
A Surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) fetched $28.5 million (including fees) at Sotheby’s in New York tonight, setting a new auction record for the British artist. The dazzling 1945 ...
Leonora Carrington, the late British-Mexican artist known for mystical landscapes and fantastical creatures, was one of the last surviving Surrealists and a key figure of the movement. Despite decades ...
Leonora Carrington was an artist and writer. Her art is like a mashup of Beatrice Potter and Hieronymus Bosch, intricate and complicated with the nursery rhyme sweetness of Potter and dark edge of ...
Dr. Susan Aberth, prominent cultural historian and leading Leonora Carrington scholar, has observed, “Like the alchemical processes of distillation and transmutation that abound in her work, ...
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Leonora Carrington, "La Grande Dame" (1951), painted wood sculpture, 79 1/2 inches tall (~200 cm) (all images courtesy Sotheby's New York) Emerging on the market after nearly 30 years, a rare and ...
In her designs for S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, the artist blends various visual and mythological strands of her European background with those of her adopted home of Mexico. Already a member? Sign in ...
Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, the artist’s first-ever museum exhibition in New England, brings together over thirty works of art, some rarely seen, that span over six decades of Carrington’s ...
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