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Property from a Prestigious Southwestern Collection

Leonora Carrington

Temple of the Word

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 12:00 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious Southwestern Collection

Leonora Carrington

(1917 - 2011)


Temple of the Word

signed Leonora Carrington and dated July 1954 (lower left)

oil and gold leaf on canvas

39 ½ by 31 ¾ in.

100.3 by 80.6 cm.

Executed in July 1954.


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.

Dr. Morris Oxhorn, Mexico City (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above) 

Christie's, New York, 17 May 1993, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Whitney Chadwick, Leonora Carrington. La realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 39, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 162; illustrated in color on the cover

Maricarmen Velasco Ballesteros, “The Creative Impulse of Leonora Carrington,” Voices of Mexico, issue 30, January-March 1995, p. 88, illustrated in color

Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Hampshire, 2004, no. 71, pp. 98 and 99, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art (and traveling), Women Surrealists in Mexico, 2003-04, p. 36, fig. 4, illustrated

Georgiana M.M. Colvile, “Temple of the Word (Post-) Surrealist Women Artists’ Literary Production in America and Mexico,” Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 5, issue 1, 2011, pp. 1 and 14

James Oles, Art and Architecture in Mexico, London, 2013, no. 210, p. 310, illustrated in color

Jeanne Ellen Petrolle, Dancing with Ophelia: Reconnecting madness, creativity, and love, New York, 2018, illustrated in color on the cover

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo, 1990, n.n., p. 173, illustrated in color 

New York, National Academy of Design; Mexico City, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo and Museo de Monterrey,  La mujer en Mexico, 1990-91, no. 46, p. 41, illustrated in color and p. 94

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: una retrospectiva, 1994, no. 30, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 143

Tokyo Station Gallery; Umeda-Osaka, Diamaru Museum; Hida Takayama Museum of Art and Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, 1997-98, no. 27, pp. 70 and 71, illustrated in color

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, El surrealismo y el sueño, 2013-14, fig. 50, p. 161, illustrated in color