Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington
Born(1917-04-06)6 April 1917
Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England
Died25 May 2011(2011-05-25) (aged 94)
Mexico City, Mexico
CitizenshipMexico[1]
Known forPainting
Writing
MovementSurrealism
Spouse(s)Renato Leduc
Emerico "Chiki" Weisz
ChildrenGabriel and Pablo Weisz
Websiteleocarrington.com

Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011[2]) was a British-born, naturalized Mexican[1] surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s.[3] Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Coordinación de Comunicación Social – Homenaje póstumo en el Senado a la artista nacionalizada mexicana, Leonora Carrington". Senado de la República. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ Grimes, William (26 May 2011). "Leonora Carrington Is Dead at 94; Artist and Author of Surrealist Work". New York Times.
  3. ^ Paul Bond (22 June 2011). "Leonora Carrington dead at 94". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. ^ Chadwick, Whitney (1986). "Leonora Carrington: Evolution of a Feminist Consciousness". Woman's Art Journal. 7 (1): 37–42. doi:10.2307/1358235. JSTOR 1358235.
  5. ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 90. ISBN 978-0714878775.

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