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Birth
1917 (Clayton Green, Lancashire, England)
Death
2011 (Mexico City, Mexico)
Lived/Active
Mexico/France
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narrative, surrealism and dreamscape painting, wood sculpture
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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 S (showing 500 of 5958 characters). |
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