Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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Cultural formation | Leonora Carrington | Rejecting her parents' conventional expectations for her to marry and settle into a quiet domestic life, LC
left England at the age of twenty. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017. 71 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Leonora Carrington | LC
met the (married) Surrealist artist Max Ernst
at a dinner party in Highgate Hill, London. They began an intense and long-term romantic relationship that would strongly influence their individual and collaborative creative work. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017. 47 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Leonora Carrington | LC
and Max Ernst
spent three weeks in Cornwall, staying at Lambe Creek House with a large group of fellow artists: Roland Penrose
, Lee Miller
, Paul
and Nusch Éluard
, Man Ray
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Leonora Carrington | During this period in Lisbon LC
also reunited with Max Ernst
, who had been freed from internment. He was also en route to America thanks to the art collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Leonora Carrington | LC
's relationship with Max Ernst
continued in New York though both were married to other people, but she was dissatisfied with it, believing that her independence as a practitioner was limited by his fame... |
Leisure and Society | Leonora Carrington | LC
's awareness of and growing experimentation with modern art was nurtured by her mother despite their different beliefs about how LC should shape her life. Maurie Carrington
gave Leonora a copy of Surrealism (1936)... |
Occupation | Leonora Carrington | LC
participated in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, which opened on this day at the |
Occupation | Leonora Carrington | In Paris LC
created her seminal painting The Inn of the Dawn Horse, also known as Self-Portrait and (in 2017) held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017. 86 |
Occupation | Leonora Carrington | She appears in the photo not only with her lover Max Ernst
and friend André Breton
, but also her former teacher Amédée Ozenfant
. Berenice Abbott
and Peggy Guggenheim are the only other women... |
politics | Leonora Carrington | The security of LC
's life with Max Ernst
ended when, shortly after France declared war on Germany, Ernst was interned, first at the camp at Largentière and then at another near Aix-en-Provence. Aberth, Susan L. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art. Lund Humphries, 2010. 45 Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017. 100 |
politics | Leonora Carrington | The outbreak of World War II posed specific dangers for LC
and Ernst
because of the latter's nationality and productivity. Ernst's work was condemned by the German goverment in July 1937 when it was included... |
Publishing | Leonora Carrington | The text is partly collaborative, containing a short preface and four illustrations by LC
's lover Max Ernst
. Ernst's preface depicts two characters closely identified by themselves and their peers, in their life and... |
Publishing | Leonora Carrington | Like LC
's first book, this was written in French and features illustrations by Max Ernst
: here, Ernst contributed seven collage illustrations. |
Residence | Leonora Carrington | LC
left her home in England permanently and moved to Paris with Max Ernst
: she took a boat train from London and arrived at the Gare du Nord. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017. 70-1, 75 |
Residence | Leonora Carrington |
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