Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican Surrealist painter and writer known for densely symbolic, dreamlike paintings populated by hybrid human-animal figures, alchemical imagery, and references to Celtic mythology and esoteric traditions. After fleeing Europe amid the Second World War and a period of psychiatric hospitalization following the internment of her partner Max Ernst, she settled permanently in Mexico City, where she became a central figure, alongside Remedios Varo, of the Surrealist circle that developed there. Carrington's paintings, including The Giantess and Self-Portrait, along with her novels and short stories, drew on her own psychological experience and a deep personal mythology largely independent of the male-dominated European Surrealist movement she had left behind, and she is now recognized as one of the movement's most significant artists.
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BirthplaceClayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire, England 1 Connections
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(6 April 1917
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25 May 2011) was a British and Mexican surrealist painter and novelist
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was a British and Mexican surrealist painter
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Carrington was born on 6 April 1917 at Westwood House in Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire, England, into a Roman Catholic family.
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Leonora Carrington died on 25 May 2011, aged 94, in a hospital in Mexico City as a result of complications arising from pneumonia.
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Carrington was born on 6 April 1917 at Westwood House in Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire, England, into a Roman Catholic family.
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Leonora Carrington died on 25 May 2011, aged 94, in a hospital in Mexico City as a result of complications arising from pneumonia.
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After fleeing Europe amid the Second World War and a period of psychiatric hospitalization following the internment of her partner Max Ernst, she settled permanently in Mexico City, where she became a central figure, alongside Remedios Varo, of the Surrealist circle that developed there.
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