Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
El retorno de la osa mayor
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May 20, 12:34 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
(1917 - 2011)
El retorno de la osa mayor
signed Leonora Carrington and dated 1966 (lower left); titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 ¾ by 39 ¼ in.
60 by 100 cm.
Executed in 1966.
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 de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above circa 1966)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, 1994-95, no. 53, p. 115, illustrated in color
Juan García Ponce and Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Mexico City, 1974, no. 42, illustrated in color
Lourdes Andrade, Leonora Carrington, historia en dos tiempos, Mexico City, 1998, n.p., illustrated in color and on the cover