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Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington

Carrington, Mary Leonora

April 6, 1917 – May 25, 2011 (aged 94)

Birth place: Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

Browse magazine works (first published 1938)

Leonora Carrington was a Surrealist painter and writer who was born in England, spent time in France (Paris and Saint-Martin d'Ardèche) in the 1930s (being in love with Max Ernst), then settled in Mexico City, marrying Emerico Weisz in 1946: both became the parents of Gabriel Weisz Carrington and Pablo Weisz-Carrington (according to diverse essays and biographies [for example by Heribert Becker]). She wrote in English, French, and Spanish.

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