Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection
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.
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
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