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Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Leonora Carrington

Arca de Noé

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 900,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Leonora Carrington

1917 - 2011


Arca de Noé

signed Leonora Carrington (lower right)

oil on canvas

19 ⅞ by 43 ¾ in.

50.2 by 111.2 cm.

Executed in 1957.


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 Proteo, Mexico City

Galería Norte-Sur, Caracas

Francisco y Celia Rojo, Mexico City

Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 2013, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Monterrey (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the Estate of the above in 2015 by the present owner

Juan García Ponce and Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Mexico City 1974, no. 31, n.p., illustrated in color (dated 1967)

Lourdes Andrade, Leonora Carrington. Historia en dos tiempos, Mexico City 1989, n.p., illustrated in color (dated 1967)

Whitney Chadwick, Leonora Carrington. La Realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City 1994, no. 73, n.p, illustrated in color (dated 1967)

Mexico City, Salones del Ateneo Español, Exposición colectiva, 1961, no. 9