Max Ernst

Rejecting her parents' conventional expectations for her to marry and settle into a quiet domestic life, LC left England at the age of twenty. Her romantic experiences included a relationship with Max Ernst and...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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)...

LC participated in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, which opened on this day at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris. The show was curated by Marcel Duchamp and included pieces by Salvador Dali ,...

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. She later...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Like LC 's first book, this was written in French and features illustrations by Max Ernst : here, Ernst contributed seven collage illustrations. Editions G.L.M. published the first edition in Paris, with a print...

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.

LC and Max Ernst purchased Les Alliberts, a farmhouse in the village of Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, Provence. The couple lived in the house for a short but productive period: LC called it a kind of paradise...