Leonora Carrington (English/Mexican B. 1917)
Lepidóptero (also known as To Be an Insect)
painted wood
28 x 6½ x 6 in. (71 x 17 x 15 cm.)
Executed circa 1952.
Leonora Carrington (English/Mexican B. 1917)
Lepidóptero (also known as To Be an Insect)
painted wood
28 x 6½ x 6 in. (71 x 17 x 15 cm.)
Executed circa 1952.
Marie Moorehead Carrington collection, England.
Harold Moorehead Carrington collection, England.
Stephanie Bonte Carrington collection, Isle of Man.
J. García Ponce, Leonora Carrington, Mexico City, 1974, p. 8 (illustrated).
W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington: La realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 24 (illustrated in color).
S. L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, 2004, p. 91, no. 64 (illustrated in color).