Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from an Important North American Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
Who art thou, White Face?
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important North American Private Collection
Leonora Carrington
1917 - 2011
Who art thou, White Face?
signed Leonora Carrington (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 ¾ by 39 ½ in.
70.5 by 100.3 cm.
Executed in 1959.
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.
We wish to thank Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above in 1961)
Acquired by descent from the above in 1981 by the present owner
José Pierre, Le Surréalisme, Lausanne, 1966, p. 81, illustrated in color
Xavier Moyssén, "Los Animales en la Pintura Contemporánea de Mexico," Artes de México, issue 130, 1970, p. 96, illustrated (dated 1859)
Leonora Carrington and Juan García Ponce, Leonora Carrington, Mexico City, 1974, pp. 26-27, illustrated in color
Gloria Feman Orenstein, "Art History and the Case for the Women of Surrealism," The Journal of General Education, vol. 27, issue 1, Spring 1975, p. 41
Whitney Chadwick, Leonora Carrington. La realidad de la imaginación, Mexico City, 1994, no. 49, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 162
Lourdes Andrade, Leonora Carrington: historia en dos tiempos, Mexico City, 1998, n.p., illustrated in color
Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Hampshire, 2004, no. 87, p. 112, illustrated in color
Silvia Cherem, Trazos y revelaciones, Entrevistas a diez artistas mexicanos, Mexico City, 2004, p. 82, illustrated in color
Giulia Ingarao, Leonora Carrington, The Image of Dreams, Milan, 2022, p. 160
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Leonora Carrington, 1960, no. 42
New York, D'Arcy Galleries, Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanters' Domain, 1960-61, no. 22
Mexico City, Instituto Anglo-Mexicano de Cultura, Leonora Carrington 1955—1965, 1965, no. 6, n.p., illustrated
Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Galería Universitaria Aristos, Surrealismo y el arte fantástico en México, 1967, no. 5
London, The Hayward Gallery; Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Art in Latin America, The Modern Era 1820-1980, 1989-90, no. 10.44, p. 235, illustrated in color
London, Serpentine Gallery; Preston, Harris Museum and Bristol, Arnolfini, Leonora Carrington Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1940-1990, 1991-92, no. 36, p. 79, illustrated in color and p. 110
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: una retrospectiva, 1994, no. 42, p. 105, illustrated in color and p. 143
Tokyo Station Gallery; Umeda, Daimaru Museum; Hida Takayama Museum of Art and Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, 1997-98, no. 39, p. 83, illustrated in color
Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Suntory Museum; Nagoya City Art Museum and Kochi, The Museum of Art, Women Surrealists in Mexico, 2003-04, no. 69, p. 131, illustrated in color
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist, 2013-14, n.n., pp. 95 and 98 (detail), illustrated in color