About Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington OBE (1917–2011) was a British/Mexican Surrealist painter and novelist. Born in Lancashire, she lived most of her life in Mexico City after fleeing war-torn Europe.
A rebel against societal expectation, Carrington’s fantastical, dreamlike work was heavily influenced by her passionate relationship with German Surrealist Max Ernst, and she later formed an artistic partnership and friendship with Spanish painter Remedios Varo. However, she challenged the male-dominated circle of Surrealists by famously saying that ‘she refuses to be anyone's muse’.
Carrington celebrated feminine power, promoted female solidarity and rewrote mythology from a female perspective. Her richly symbolic work is well characterised by her Self-Portrait (1937–8) and her novel The Hearing Trumpet (1974) was one of the first books to tackle gender identity in the 20th century. In 2024, her defining masterpiece Les Distractions de Dagobert (1945) sold for $28.5 million at Sotheby’s, setting a new record for the artist.
TIN MAN ART is the authorised seller of Leonora Carrington prints in the UK, in partnership with rossogranada and the Leonora Carrington Council.