Property from an Important Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
The Return of Boadicea
Session begins in
November 21, 03:30 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Bid
850,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
1917 - 2011
The Return of Boadicea
signed Leonora Carrington (lower left); signed Leonora Carrington, titled and dated 1969 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 ¾ by 31 ¾ in.
80.6 by 80.6 cm.
Executed in 1969.
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.
We wish to thank Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City (acquired directly from the artist circa 1969)
Horacio Gil Vertiz, Mexico (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Center for Inter-American Relations and Austin, The University of Texas, The University Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1975-76, no. 48, illustrated
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, 1994, no. 63, p. 126, illustrated in color
The Dallas Museum of Art, Leonora Carrington, What She Might Be, 2007-08, illustrated in color (on the cover)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec and Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, In Wonderland. The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, 2012-13, no. 194, p. 203, illustrated in color
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