Leonora Carrington escaped a stultifying Lancashire childhood to run off with Max Ernst and hang out with Picasso and André Breton in 1930s Paris. She fled the Nazis, escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Spain and became a national treasure in Mexico. What happened to one of Britain's finest - and neglected - surrealists?
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I wonder if this is the same artist as the movie Carrington was made about? No, now that I think about it, it isn't; that Carrington committed suicide. She was played by the incredible Emma Thompson in a film that gave me one of my most oft-remembered lines, spoken by Lytton Strachey on his deathbed: "If this is dying, I don't think much of it."
ReplyDeleteYou're thinking of Dora Carrington, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, who committed suicide in 1932 because she couldn't bear to live without Lytton Strachey. I wondered if Leonora was related to her but I've seen nothing to indicate that she was.
ReplyDeleteLeonora Carrington is a favorite artist of mine. Thanks for posting this!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know her before but now she's a favourite of mine too.
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