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The Memory Tower

Leonora Carrington

Graphicstudio United States

Artwork details

Artist

Leonora Carrington

Title

The Memory Tower

Description

Intaglio

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.

Date

1995

Medium

Intaglio

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

33-1/2 x 25-3/4 inches

Status

Sold

The Artist

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.