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Leonora Carrington

Tower of Nagas

Auction Closed

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