Who is this diva? Why, it’s “La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman),” the star of Sotheby’s Modern Evening Sale in New York.
Leonora Carrington
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Plans to Turn Leonora Carrington’s Home Into a Museum Scrapped
The house and studio in Mexico City will now serve as a “documentation center,” according to the building’s owner, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
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Leonora Carrington Masterpiece Sells for $28.5M, Shattering Records
The Surrealist work, acquired by Argentinian museum founder Eduardo F. Costantini, makes Carrington the most valuable UK-born woman artist on the public market.
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Leonora Carrington Masterpiece Could Fetch Over $12M at Auction
The dreamlike work blends references to Hieronymus Bosch, Irish mythology, the kabbalah, and Mexican Indigenous cosmologies.
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What Did Home Mean to Leonora Carrington?
A new book explores the many places the artist lived in and how they shaped how she made art.
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The Tarotic Roots of Leonora Carrington’s Art
Both the tarot and Carrington’s work are in the midst of a revival that has the world re-evaluating our relationship with nature, the earth, and our place in it.
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Leonora Carrington’s Little-Known Explorations of Jewish Mysticism
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.
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Why the Word “Forgotten” Isn’t Helping Women Artists
This word expresses a passivity that obscures the reality of these women’s stories. I prefer the more accurate “erased.”
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A Revelatory Tarot Deck by Leonora Carrington
Resurfacing a little known part of the artist’s oeuvre, a new text from Fulgur Press demonstrates that occultism was thoroughly knit into the fabric of Carrington’s life.
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Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
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The Surrealist Satire of Leonora Carrington
These stunningly strange, arrestingly intellectual constructs treat the human imagination with humor and forgiveness.
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The Idiosyncratic Writings of Leonora Carrington, a Reluctant Surrealist
Three books by Leonora Carrington, including her memoir of her time at an insane asylum, reveal the artist’s specific vision of the world, which strayed from and defied Surrealism.