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Snake by Leonora Carrington

Graphicstudio

Intaglio

1998

Edition Size: 60

Image Size: 12 3/4" x 9 3/4" inches

Sheet Size: 19 3/4" x 16 3/4" inches

Signed

Condition: Pristine

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Renowned surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) enjoyed a distinguished career as painter, printmaker, sculptor, novelist, playwright and short-story writer. Beginning at the dawn of the international Surrealist movement in the 1930s, her career has taken her from London to Paris to Mexico City, where she currently resides and where she is revered as one of the living masters of contemporary art.

Carrington’s luminous and finely detailed works describe a fantastic world that seems eerily familiar. Strange creatures, human, animal and mythological, inhabit landscapes and interior spaces, where they perform rituals of magic, incantation, transformation and regeneration. Carrington constructs scenarios, through painstaking detail, which encourage a suspension of disbelief, a dreamlike state, thus allowing the viewer to enter her vision of the world.

At Graphicstudio, Carrington created six prints: a nine-color intaglio and a set of five intaglios with five text pages by her son, poet Gabriel Weisz Carrington.

$2,000.00

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Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington’s father was a wealthy industrialist, her mother was Irish. She also had an Irish nanny, Mary Cavanaugh, who told her Gaelic tales. Leonora had three brothers. Places she lived as a child included a house called Crooksey Hall.

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