Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)
Lot 98 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROY AND MARY CULLEN

Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)

Untitled

Closed28 May 2015

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Leonora Carrington (British/Mexican 1917-2011)
Untitled
signed 'L.C.' (lower right) and inscribed 'Lombard Chelsea Embankment' (upper right)
watercolor and graphite on paper
6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (17.5 x 25 cm.)
Executed circa 1935.

Maurice Lods collection, Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, France.
Max Ernst collection, Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, France.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner (March 2012).

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 the present work may illustrate the apartment where Carrington lived while attending the Chelsea Art School and the Ozenfant Academy in London from 1936-37, before meeting the surrealist artist Max Ernst and departing with him for Paris.