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Leonora Carrington

July 2024

  • Detail from Leonora Carrington, Woman with Fox bronze sculpture against a mustard yellow background

    Art Weekly newsletter
    A very British surrealist and the Tories’ legacy in cartoons – the week in art

    Drift inside Leonora Carrington’s strange dreams while Ben Jennings parodies 14 years of political failure in a graphic Rake’s Progress – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Leonora Carrington Dragon, 1979

    Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary review – wild dreams of a titan of surrealism finally get their due

    This is an ecstatic reminder of all that is liberating in surrealist art by an extraordinary artist who was still unlocking her unconscious well into her 90s
  • Magalie Lépine Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal in The Nature of Love.

    Going out, staying in
    From The Nature of Love to Leonora Carrington: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    Sparks fly high in this Canadian romance, plus the multi-million-dollar art of a British surrealist trailblazer

June 2024

  • British artist Leonora Carrington in her house in Mexico in 2000.

    Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s due

    The artist and writer is celebrated in a new UK show – but why was a woman of such talent so little known in her lifetime, asks her cousin?

May 2024

  • Art handlers lift Leonora Carrington's Les Distractions de Dagobert at Sotheby's auction house in New York. The painting is framed in gold and it is being placed on a black wall; the handlers wear white gloves white shirts and are seen in the shadows, while the painting's rich colours shine out.

    Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for UK-born female artist

    Les Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New York

April 2024

  • Louise Bourgeois’s gigantic bronze spider in front of the main house of Compton Verney.

    The Taotie; A Spirit Inside; Landscape and Imagination review – three superb shows mark 20 years of Compton Verney

    The Georgian mansion turned world-class art venue celebrates its birthday with a trio of excellent exhibitions

November 2022

  • Leonora Carrington, then aged 84, at her house in the bohemian Roma district of Mexico City in November 2000, where she had lived for the past 50 years.

    Tarot cards reveal hidden thoughts of surrealist genius Leonora Carrington

    Recognition came late for the pioneering British-Mexican artist and feminist, and now the emergence of a private collection has given her work new meaning

May 2022

  • Maeve Gilmore in her studio in Maida Vale, London, 1939

    The Guardian view on Maeve Gilmore’s art: out from the shadows

    Editorial: Cliches about the toll of domesticity on creativity undermine the achievements of this brilliant woman – and others like her

March 2022

  • Employee poses with the 1941 painting "La Corrida (Le Matador dans l'arene)" (The Matador in the Arena)

    Surreal: art’s weirdest worldview bounces back a century after its birth

    Literary and artistic movement enjoying another golden age, with international events and exhibitions

May 2021

  • ‘Glimpses beyond the everyday’ … Leonora Carrington’s kitchen.

    Is that a surrealist masterpiece by the draining board? Inside Leonora Carrington’s sculpture-filled home

    The great British artist’s home in Mexico has been turned into a wonderful museum, full of her sculptures, books, diaries and unsmoked cigarettes. Our writer, Carrington’s cousin, takes an emotional tour

January 2021

  • The Sun, The Lovers and The Tower Tarot card paintings by Leonora Carrington.

    Ahead of the pack: Leonora Carrington's tarot card art – in pictures

    The celebrated surrealist painter and writer had a fascination with divination

February 2019

  • Colourful Colima street shops and homes in the Roma neighbourhood of Mexico City, Mexico.

    Roma sets the scene: the magical Mexico City district behind the film

    Alfonso Cuarón’s award-winning movie takes place in a gritty, colourful barrio that has retained its stylish eclecticism

October 2018

  • Chloe Aridjis in Female Human Animal

    Female Human Animal review – a date with Leonora Carrington

    This sui generis docu-portrait offers a behind the scenes look at the art world, as novelist Chloe Aridjis curates a retrospective of the surrealist

September 2018

  • About Leo - Alice Allemano - Jermyn Street Theatre - 5th September 2018<br>About Leo - Jermyn Street Theatre - Susan Tracy (Leonora Carrington - older) - photo Robert Workman

    About Leo review – vivid portrait of a painter who reframed art

    This profound and beautiful study of surrealist Leonora Carrington, once the partner of Max Ernst, ingeniously contrasts scenes from her early and late career

June 2017

  • Leonora Carrington in her studio in Mexico City in 2010

    David Hepworth on radio
    This week’s best radio: the woman who ran away to Mexico

    The remarkable life of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Radio 4’s book of the week. Plus: the faces of the Sgt Pepper artwork discuss the album

April 2017

  • leonora carrington at her home in mexico city in november 2000

    The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead review – an artist biography with an authentic touch

    The painter and writer’s cousin provides a uniquely personal insight into an enigmatic wild child
  • Playfulness and mystery … Leonora Carrington at home in Mexico City in 2000.

    Rereading
    From high society to surrealism: in praise of Leonora Carrington – 100 years on

    With her paintings and tales based on dreams, animals and the occult, Carrington was an uncanny original. Marina Warner salutes the artist on her centenerary
  • Spiky and uncompromising … Leonora Carrington in her studio in Mexico City in 2010.

    Book of the day
    The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead – review

    One of several books published to mark the centenary of the artist and writer, this biography is also a spirited family memoir

March 2017

  • Leonora Carrington at her home in Mexico City, 2000.

    My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington

    Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years ealier

April 2015

  • Joanna Moorhead

    Let’s celebrate Leonora Carrington’s extraordinary life, as well as her paintings

    Joanna Moorhead
    The artist would have been 98 today. She took risks and stayed true to her instincts, and I feel lucky to have known her
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