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Leonora Carrington Furniture

British, 1917-2011

Leonora Carrington was a British-Mexican Surrealist artist and a founding member of the women’s liberation movement in Mexico. She was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. Carrington soon established herself as a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and up until her death in 2011, exhibited extensively in England, Mexico, and across the United States.

In 1936, Carrington met and began a romantic relationship with the older German painter, Max Ernst, who would have a notable influence on her work. After Ernst was arrested for “Degenerate Art,” Carrington was hospitalized with a mental breakdown in Madrid. Following her traumatic experience of shock therapy, she retreated to Mexico in 1942 and resumed painting.

Carrington was the only woman included in a major retrospective of Surrealism at the Pierre Matisse gallery in New York in 1947, where she became an overnight art world sensation. Over time she also emerged as one of the leading voices in Mexico’s suffrage movement, designing many of its rally pamphlets.

Carrington’s dreamlike paintings and prints, comprising highly detailed compositions of fantastical creatures and otherworldly settings, are based on intensely personal symbolism. However, themes of metamorphosis and magic have given her art an enduring appeal. As said by the artist, in her classic novella, The Hearing Trumpet, “Art making is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds."

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(Biography provided by Heather James Fine Art)

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Leonora Carrington / La Hija Del Minotauro
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington bega...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington / Portrait
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington / Portrait
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington / Personajes Fantásticos
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington / Nine Nine Nine
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington / AB. EQ. QUON
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington / Naturaleza Muerta
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the eighties Carrington be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Paper

Leonora Carrington / Silla Dhagdha
By Leonora Carrington
Located in COYOACAN, DF
Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the ei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Leonora Carrington Furniture

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Leonora Carrington furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of paper and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Leonora Carrington furniture, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Lao Gabrielli, and Silvino Lopeztovar. Prices for Leonora Carrington furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $8,000 and can go as high as $10,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $9,250.

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