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Tower of Nagas
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November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Leonora Carrington
1917 - 2011
Tower of Nagas
signed Leonora Carrington (lower left); signed with the initials L.C., titled and dated 1991 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
44 by 32 in.
111.8 by 81 cm.
Executed in 1991.
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Acquired from the above in 2022 by the present owner
Whitney Chadwick, Leonora Carrington: La realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 105, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 164
Darran Anderson, "Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist," Studio International, 12 September 2013 (online)
Lourdes Andrade, Leonora Carrington: historia en dos tiempos, Mexico City, 1998, illustrated in color
Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra, eds., Leonora Carrington and the international avante-garde, Manchester, 2017, no. 12.8, p. 206, illustrated
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: Una retrospectiva, 1994, no. 78, p. 141, illustrated in color; p. 144
Tokyo Station Gallery; Umeda-Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Hida Takayama Museum of Art and Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, 1997-98, no. 73, pp. 118-19, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, Leonora Carrington: La vocación y sus reflejos, 2003-04, no. 25, p. 31, illustrated in color
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist, September 2013 - January 2014, n.n., p. 49, illustrated in color; p. 144
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales, 2018, no. 148, p. 445, illustrated in color
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