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“Britain’s Lost Surrealist” reads the title of a mini-documentary on the Tate Britain ’ s website about Leonora Carrington, the brilliantly enigmatic painter who died in 2011. Were she here to respond ...

Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, the artist’s first-ever museum exhibition in New England, brings together over thirty works of art, some rarely seen, that span over six decades of Carrington’s ...

Reporting from Mexico City -- She painted eerie rituals with cloaked figures in forests, dancing deer with trees growing from their backs, and breathing buildings that shot planets and stars. Leonora ...

Gallery shot of Leonora Carrington's "Les Distractions de Dagobert" (1945) (all images courtesy Sotheby's) Born in Lancashire, England, Carrington was frequently at odds with her well-to-do family and ...

British painter Leonora Carrington, one of the last surviving artists from the golden age of Surrealism, has died aged 94 in her adopted home of Mexico City, where she had lived quietly for decades.

In case you’re wondering why today’s Google Doodle depicts a crocodile-shaped boat bearing five small crocodiles and being rowed by a larger sixth, look no further than the work of surrealist painter ...

Board the crocodile boat to SanTana for Carrington’s would-be 101st birthday. (Courtesy Makara Center for the Arts.) We are all invited to a birthday party for artist and writer extraordinaire Leonora ...