She returned to England and was presented at Court, but according to her, she brought a copy of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza (1936) to read instead. Her father opposed her career as an artist, but her mother encouraged her. In 1927, at the age of ten, she saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery in Paris and later met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard. She also, briefly, attended St Mary's convent school in Ascot. She had three brothers: Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur.Įducated by governesses, tutors, and nuns, she was expelled from two schools, including New Hall School, Chelmsford, for her rebellious behaviour, until her family sent her to Florence, where she attended Mrs Penrose's Academy of Art. Her father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother, Maureen (née Moorhead), was Irish. Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.Ĭarrington was born in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – ) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist.
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