Leonora Carrington
1917-2011
BIRD SUPERIOR, PORTRAIT OF MAX ERNST
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.
Pegeen Guggenheim, New York
Private Collection, Paris
Timothy Baum, New York (acquired from the above circa 1968)
Gerrit Lansing, New York (acquired from the above)
Judith Mallin, New York
Timothy Baum, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2000
New York, The Center for Inter-American Relations, Leonora Carrington: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1975-76, no. 2, illustrated in color in the catalogue
London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington, Paintings, drawings and sculptures, 1940-1990, 1991-1992, no. 5, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Whitney Chadwick,
Leonora Carrington: La realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 2, illustrated in color n.p.
Liz Dawtrey,
Investigating Modern Art, New Haven, 1996, no. 77, illustrated in color p. 100
Delia Gaze,
Dictionary of Women Artists, vol. I, London, 1997, n.n., illustrated p. 363
M.E. Warlick,
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth, Austin, 2001, fig. 6.10, illustrated p. 163
Annie Lebrun, Leonora Carrington: La mariée du vent, Paris, 2008, fig. 11, illustrated in color p. 38
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Leonora Carrington (exhibition catalogue), Dublin, 2013, n.n., illustrated in color p. 143