Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) shattered her family's dreams of her debutante ballad in a grey London to embrace the more colorful life of the Parisian Surrealists. She fled occupied France and waged a futile struggle to save her lover, Max Ernst, from prison. Interned in a Spanish asylum, she would describe this experience in the book. Below (1988). It was in Mexico that she found lasting refuge and a conducive environment for her prodigious imagination. One of the last surrealists, she dedicated herself to painting, writing, and sculpture until her death, leaving us a visionary and creative body of work.