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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
In 1935, at the age of eighteen, Leonora Carrington left the comfort of her family home in the north of England and moved to London where she immersed herself in her studies as a painter. She first attended the Chelsea School of Art and later the Ozenfant Academy. The latter Academy was led by the French painter Amédée Ozenfant who had co-founded the Purism movement which advocated a more subdued version of Cubism. As art historian Susan Aberth well states, "on the surface [Ozenfant's] academy would appear a highly unlikely environment to teach Carrington, with her propensity towards fantasy and narrative."[1] However Carrington thrived under Ozenfant's mentorship. The present work dates from this period, and provides a rare glimpse into the young artist's promising, yet still developing style.
1 S. L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington, Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Hampshire: Lund Humphries, 2004), 21.
In 1935, at the age of eighteen, Leonora Carrington left the comfort of her family home in the north of England and moved to London where she immersed herself in her studies as a painter. She first attended the Chelsea School of Art and later the Ozenfant Academy. The latter Academy was led by the French painter Amédée Ozenfant who had co-founded the Purism movement which advocated a more subdued version of Cubism. As art historian Susan Aberth well states, "on the surface [Ozenfant's] academy would appear a highly unlikely environment to teach Carrington, with her propensity towards fantasy and narrative."[1] However Carrington thrived under Ozenfant's mentorship. The present work dates from this period, and provides a rare glimpse into the young artist's promising, yet still developing style.
1 S. L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington, Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Hampshire: Lund Humphries, 2004), 21.