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Leonora Carrington

b. 1917, Lancashire, England; d. 2011, Mexico City, Mexico

Artes 110 (Arts 110)

Oil on canvas

Object: 16 in x 24 in (40.64 cm x 60.96 cm)

Framed: 24.5 in x 33 in x 4 in (62.23 cm x 83.82 cm x 10.16 cm)

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Pearl and Stanley Goodman
PG2012.1.12

Curator and Scholar Notes

Leonora Carrington is a leading figure of the Surrealist movement. She first met and saw the work of Max Ernst at an exhibition in London (1936), a pioneer of the Surrealist movement whose exploration of dimensions of the unconscious and unknown paralleled Carrington's artistic sensibilities. The couple lived together in Paris (1937) and Southern France (1938). Ernst's modernist work was declared “degenerate" by the Nazis, and he was arrested and briefly imprisoned (1939) and imprisoned again (1940).

Carrington suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized in Madrid, Spain. Subsequently, she fled war-torn Europe by marrying Mexican diplomat Renato Leduc (1941) in Lisbon and traveled to New York. In 1942, the couple moved to Mexico, where she connected with the art community.

The title Artes 110 is derived from the street address of her first house in Mexico City. Its dominating female figure is a self-portrait. The figure is topped with a horse form, the symbol of Carrington's alter ego. She flies from the crumbling Old World supported on the back of a rodent towards her new life where a red womb-like gown awaits her.

Click here to watch the 2019 Annual Stanley and Pearl Goodman Lecture on Latin American Art, Leonora Carrington in Mexico: The Mirror of the Marvelous by Tere Arcq, leading art historian and curator of the work of women Surrealists.

Click here for a virtual tour of the I Paint My Reality: Surrealism in Latin America exhibition.