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Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time

Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museum

The Guardian - UK · May 27

Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists

From Paris to Mexico, Leonora Carrington’s extraordinary life is retold with intelligence and restraint, though not quite enough imagination

The Guardian - UK · May 26

The Symptomatic Surreal: Leonora Carrington exhibition explores her complex relationship with death

Encounters with Leonora Carrington’s work are often shaped by their setting, from expansive museum displays to more intimate curatorial spaces. Nowhere is this more evident than at London’s Freud Museum, where new exhibition The Symptomatic Surreal offers a markedly different lens on her life and art.

The Conversation · Mar 30

Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100

From Ernst to Dalí, from Maar to De Chirico, this is a dazzling riot of creativity, celebrating the artistic potential of the unconscious – and shoes

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2024

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?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2024

How the surrealists used randomness as a catalyst for creative expression

A century ago, French writer and poet André Breton penned his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” which launched an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2024

Painting by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fetches $28m at auction

Late British painter’s Les Distractions de Dagobert, ‘the apotheosis of Carrington’s oeuvre’, was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch

The Guardian - US · May 16, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · May 16, 2024

New book sheds light on surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s extraordinary life and work

Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, Joanna Moorhead’s latest book on the pioneering surrealist painter and writer who lived from 1917 to 2011, captures a wave of fascination for surrealist women artists.

The Conversation · Jun 15, 2023