Lenora Carrington (1917-2011)
The U.K.-born artist Leonora Carrington had an illustrious career that spanned seven decades, producing a diverse range of paintings and sculptures that explored mythical subject matter. She also published stories. Settling in France with partner and fellow Surrealist painter Max Ernst, Carrington exhibited at the “International Exhibition of Surrealism” in 1938. Within the next four years, she would suffer a nervous breakdown, participate in the 1942 exhibition “First Papers of Surrealism” in New York alongside Marcel Duchamp, pen the surrealist memoir En bas (Down Below) (1943), and emigrate to Mexico. There, Carrington developed a close friendship with Varo, married the Hungarian photographer Emeric Weisz in Mexico City, and mastered her captivating, magical realist style.