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Last of the original surrealist artists passes away

Last of the original surrealist artists passes away

The death has taken place of Leonora Carrington who was the last of the original surrealist artists. She was 94.

Ms. Carrington, who was born in Lancashire, died in Mexico where she had lived since the 1940s.

Her work included sculptures, paintings, novels and poems.

She had moved to Paris when she was 20 and fell in love with the surrealist painter Max Ernst.

A year later she was exhibiting her own surrealist works in both Paris and Amsterdam.

In 1939 she was plunged into a deep depression after Max Ernst was arrested by the Gestapo. She had fled the Nazis and travelled to Spain where she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

But she managed to escape and while living in Lisbon, married the Mexican poet Renato Leduc.

They moved to Mexico in 1942 where Ms. Carrington became friends with the artist Frida Kahlo and the writer Octavio Paz.

Her relationship with Leduc ended and in 1946 she married Emerico Weisz. They had two children.

Ms. Carrington remained in Mexico where she was regarded as a national treasure.

To view some of Leonora Carrington’s works click here.

 

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