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Leonora Carrington BIOGRAPHY
1917 Clayton Green, Lancashire, England - 2011 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Narrative, surrealism and dreamscape painting, wood sculpture.
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, the beautiful black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire. Brought up in European convents and... Read full biography
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, the beautiful black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very un-lady-like... Read full biography
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, the beautiful black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very un-lady-like manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1936 she enrolled at the Amedee Ozenfant Academy in London, and was impressed by the First International Surrealist Exhibition.... Read full biography
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, the beautiful black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very un-lady-like manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1936 she enrolled at the Amedee Ozenfant Academy in London, and was impressed by the First International Surrealist Exhibition. The next year she met Max Ernst, who was lecturing in England and returned with him to France, where they lived and worked together for the next three years, eventually settling in the South to avoid the social conflicts within the Surrealist circle in... Read full biography
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, the beautiful black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very un-lady-like manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1936 she enrolled at the Amedee Ozenfant Academy in London, and was impressed by the First International Surrealist Exhibition. The next year she met Max Ernst, who was lecturing in England and returned with him to France, where they lived and worked together for the next three years, eventually settling in the South to avoid the social conflicts within the Surrealist circle in Paris. In 1940 she fled to Spain to escape the Nazis but she suddenly went mad and spent agonizing months in a Sp... Read full biography
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Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, the beautiful black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very un-lady-like manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror.
In 1936 she enrolled at the Amedee Ozenfant Academy in London, and was impressed by the First International Surrealist Exhibition. The next year she met Max Ernst, who was lecturing in England and returned with him to France, where they lived and worked together for the next three years, eventually settling in the South to avoid the social conflicts w...But wait, there's more...
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