Leonora Carrington
The Hour of the Angelus
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Leonora Carrington
1917 - 2011
The Hour of the Angelus
signed Leonora Carrington (lower left); indistinctly signed again (on the reverse)
tempera on panel
60.2 by 91.1 cm. 23¾ by 35⅞ in.
Executed in 1949.
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.
Galería Proteo, Mexico City
Galería Clardecor, Mexico City (acquired by 1950)
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, 15 May 1991, lot 13 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Justino Fernández, “Catalogo de las exposiciones de arte en 1950,” Anales, vol. 5, no. 19 (supplement), 1 June 1951, p. 12
Exh. Cat., Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, 1994, p. 21
Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, London, 2017, p. 203
Roger Shannon, Michelle Man, and Ailsa Cox, et. al., eds., Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies, Wilmington, 2020, p. 180
Joanna Moorhead, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, London, 2023, pp. 44-45, illustrated in colour
Mexico City, Galerías Clardecor, Pinturas de Leonora Carrington, 1950, no. 1, n.p., illustrated
London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington. Paintings, drawings and sculptures 1940-1990, 1991, no. 17, p. 67, illustrated in colour; p. 109
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery and Norwich, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Surreal Friends: Three Exhibitions of Works by Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, 2010, no. 17, p. 18, illustrated in colour
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