Live Auction 2483Latin American Paintings
Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)
Lot 288

Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)

Personajes llevando naturaleza muerta

Closed16 November 2011

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Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)
Personajes llevando naturaleza muerta
signed 'Leonora Carrington' (lower left)
gouache on cardboard
13 x 21¾ in. (33 x 55.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1957.

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City.
Private collection, Philadelphia.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 12 May 1983, lot 53 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This lot was a costume design for the play Penélope, written by Leonora Carrington and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. It was staged in Mexico City in 1957.