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Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)
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Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)

Untitled (Horse Race)

Closed28 May 2015

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Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)
Untitled (Horse Race)
watercolor and graphite on paper
6 1/4 x 9 3/8 in. (15.9 x 23.8 cm.)

Maurice Lods collection, Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, France (acquired directly from the artist).
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner (December 2006).

Specialist note

We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg and to Susan Aberth, Ph.D. for their assistance cataloguing this work.

The scholar Susan Aberth believes that this drawing is a caricature of the British upper classes at the racetracks and may refer to the Ascot Racecourse in the village of Ascot, Berkshire--one of the leading racecourses in the United Kingdom. Carrington herself was an avid horse rider and during her coming out to society in 1934 attended the races at Ascot in the royal enclosure.