Leonora Carrington
6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican Surrealist painter and novelist. Known for her mysterious, dreamlike imagery drawing on alchemy, folklore, and Celtic mythology, she became a central figure of Mexican Surrealism and a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico.
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Life events
Born into a wealthy textile-manufacturing family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTrained as a painter in London in the mid-1930s.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBegan a relationship with Max Ernst and entered the Surrealist movement in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEmigrated to Mexico around 1942, where she spent most of her life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRecounted her experiences of mental breakdown and institutionalization during the war.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried Hungarian photographer Emerico 'Chiki' Weisz, with whom she had two sons.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCreated a major mural for the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer best-known work of fiction, a Surrealist novel written in English.
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