Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
The Return of Boadicea
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Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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
80.6 by 80.6 cm. 31¾ by 31¾ in.
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.
This work has been requested for the Leonora Carrington retrospective at Tate Britain scheduled to open in November 2028.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City (acquired 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 colour
The Dallas Museum of Art, Leonora Carrington, What She Might Be, 2007-08, illustrated in colour on the cover
Exh. Cat., 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 colour
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