Friday 25 Lifestyle | Feature Friday, May 28, 2021

View inside British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington’s (1917-2011) house and studio in Mexico City.

A sculpture by British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917- View of letters received by British-Mexican artist Leonora View of sculptures and plants inside British-Mexican artist Leonora 2011) called ‘Night Jaguar’ is seen at her house and studio in Carrington (1917-2011) at her house and studio in Mexico City. Carrington’s (1917-2011) house and studio in Mexico city. Mexico City. In exchange, on May 19 he donated works of his mother began a love affair with painter Max Ernst. valued at three million dollars. The museum in Colonia After Ernst was arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Roma houses 45 sculptures and hundreds of objects that France, Carrington fell into a deep depression before being Carrington used while living there, including her food sea- committed to a psychiatric hospital in Spain. She managed sonings and makeup. The intention is “to preserve the inti- to escape, and in Lisbon married the Mexican poet and jour- mate character of the dining room, bedroom, kitchen and nalist Renato Leduc, who in 1942 took her to Mexico. She study with the idea of presenting them as closely as they settled there permanently, befriending painter Frida Kahlo were in the artist’s daily life,” Osorio said. The opening date and future Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Carrington died in will depend on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic in May 2011 in Mexico City at the age of 94.—AFP Mexico, she added. Born in Lancashire, England into an aristocratic industrial family at the cusp of the Surrealist movement, Carrington moved to Paris aged 20 where she

View of British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington’s (1917-2011) View of British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington’s (1917-2011) A sculpture by British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917- typewriter and other personal objects at her house and studio in portrait at her house and studio in Mexico City. 2011) called ‘Woman with Pigeon’ is seen at her house and studio Mexico City. in Mexico City.