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Artist |
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Leonora Carrington |
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Title |
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The Giantess
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Medium |
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tempera on wood panel |
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Size |
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47.2 x 27.2 in. / 120 x 69.2 cm. |
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Year |
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1947 - |
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Description |
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Leonora Carrington (English/Mexican b. 1917)
The Giantess
also known as The Guardian of the Egg
tempera on wood panel
47¼ x 27¼ in. (120 x 69.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1947 |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Thursday, May 28, 2009
[Lot 29]
Latin American Sale
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Estimate |
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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Edward James Esq., West Dean Park, Chichester, West Sussex.
The Edward James Collection, West Dean Park, Christie's, London, 5 June 1986, lot 1656 (illustrated in color).
Galería Theo, Barcelona.
Private collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Exhibition |
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New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Leonora Carrington, 24 Feburary- 13 March 1948, no. 7.
Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, September- November 1994, no. 17
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Literature |
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Exhibition catalogue, Leonora Carrington, New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1948, no. 7 (illustrated).
Town and Country magazine, Volume 103, no. 4316, January 1949, p. 30 (illustrated in color).
H. Marquié, Métaphores surréalistes dans des imaginaires féminins. Quêtes, seuils et suspensions; souffles du surréel au travers d'espaces picturaux et chorégraphiques: parcours dans les oeuvres de Leonora Carrginton, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey et Carolyn Carslon, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, Théses/Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1992, p. 941, no. 162 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Leonora Carrington: Una Retrospectiva, Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1994, p. 80, no. 17 (illustrated in color).
W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington: La Realidad de la Imaginación, Mexico City, Ediciones Era, 1994, no. 19 (illustrated in color).
T. Agnati, Leonora Carrington: Il surrealismo al femminile, Milan, Selene Edizioni, 1997 (illustrated in color).
M.A. Caws, ed., Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001, p. 146 (illustrated).
L. Andrade, Leonora Carrington: Historia en Dos Tiempos, Mexico City, Ediciones Corunda, 2002 (illustrated in color).
S.L. Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Lund Humphries, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2004, p. 78, no. 50 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, The Talismanic Lens: Leonora Carrington, San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery Annex, p. 7, Fig. 7 (illustrated in color)
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