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Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection

Leonora Carrington

La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman)

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection

Leonora Carrington

(1917 - 2011)


La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman)

oil on wood

height: 79 ½ in.

201.9 cm.

Executed in 1951.


We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.

Please note this work has been requested for the upcoming exhibition ‘Leonora Carrington' to be held at the Palazzo Reale, Milan and the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris from September 2025 – July 2026

Edward James, United Kingdom

Edward James Foundation, Sussex (acquired from the above)

The Mayor Gallery, London (on consignment from the above)

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 15 November 1994, lot 31 (consigned by the above)

Ramis Barquet, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above on 18 March 1996 by the present owner

Juan García Ponce and Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1974, p. 6, illustrated

Edward Melly, The Secret Life of Edward James, ATV Networks Ltd., video, 1978, 4 min., 6 sec., illustrated

Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Boston, 1985, no. 173, p. 198, illustrated; p. 250 (titled Carved Decorated Woman)

Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, New York, 2021, p. 251, illustrated in color; pp. 314-15

Joanna Moorhead, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, Princeton and Oxford, 2023, p. 154, illustrated in color; p. 155

London, Serpentine Gallery; Preston, Harris Museum and Bristol, Arnolfini, Leonora Carrington Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1940-1990, 1991-92, no. 26, p. 72, illustrated in color (detail); p. 73, illustrated in color; p. 110

London, Tate Modern and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, 2001-02, no. 194, p. 328, illustrated in color

New York, Di Donna Gallery, Surrealism in Mexico, 2019, pp. 96-97, illustrated in color

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Women. Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, 2020, p. 258, illustrated in color; p. 259 detail illustrated in color

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, 2022-23, no. 97, pp. 78 and 231, illustrated in color; p. 259