LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on wood panel

Measurements:

47.24 in. (120.00 cm.) (height) by 27.24 in. (69.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Leonora Carrington, 24 Feburary- 13 March 1948, no. 7. Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, September- November 1994, no. 17.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Leonora Carrington, New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1948, no. 7 (illustrated). Town and Country magazine, Volume 103, no. 4316, January 1949, p. 30 (illustrated in color). H. Marquié, Métaphores surréalistes dans des imaginaires féminins. Quêtes, seuils et suspensions; souffles du surréel au travers d'espaces picturaux et chorégraphiques: parcours dans les oeuvres de Leonora Carrginton, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey et Carolyn Carslon, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, Théses/Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1992, p. 941, no. 162 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1994, p. 80, no. 17 (illustrated in color). W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington: La Realidad de la Imaginación, Mexico City, Ediciones Era, 1994, no. 19 (illustrated in color). T. Agnati, Leonora Carrington: Il surrealismo al femminile, Milan, Selene Edizioni, 1997 (illustrated in color). M.A. Caws, ed., Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001, p. 146 (illustrated). L. Andrade, Leonora Carrington: Historia en Dos Tiempos, Mexico City, Ediciones Corunda, 2002 (illustrated in color). S.L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Lund Humphries, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2004, p. 78, no. 50 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, The Talismanic Lens: Leonora Carrington, San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery Annex, p. 7, Fig. 7 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Edward James Esq., West Dean Park, Chichester, West Sussex. The Edward James Collection, West Dean Park, Christie's, London, 5 June 1986, lot 1656 (illustrated in color). Galería Theo, Barcelona. Private collection, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner.