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Pig-rush
Details
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Pig-rush
signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington 1960' (lower left)
oil canvas
31 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (80 x 90 cm.)
Painted in 1960.
Pig-rush
signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington 1960' (lower left)
oil canvas
31 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (80 x 90 cm.)
Painted in 1960.
Provenance
Private collection, Houston.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's New York, 28 May 2003, lot 80, acquired after sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's New York, 28 May 2003, lot 80, acquired after sale by the present owner.
Literature
“Bienal Interamericana de México,” in Artes de México, No. 34, 1961, no. 7.
W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington, La realidad y la imaginación, Mexico City, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Ediciones ERA, 1994, pp. 53 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalog, Leonora Carrington, Tokyo, Tokyo Shinbun, 1997, pp. 86, no. 42 (illustrated in color).
L. Andrade, Leonora Carrington, Historia en dos tiempos, Mexico City, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1998, pp. 50 (illustrated in color).
W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington, La realidad y la imaginación, Mexico City, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Ediciones ERA, 1994, pp. 53 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalog, Leonora Carrington, Tokyo, Tokyo Shinbun, 1997, pp. 86, no. 42 (illustrated in color).
L. Andrade, Leonora Carrington, Historia en dos tiempos, Mexico City, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1998, pp. 50 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington, Una Retrospectiva, September – November 1994. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery; Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka; Hida Takayama Museum of Art; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, 14 October 1997 - 5 May 1998.
Further details
We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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