Leonora Carrington
The Temptation of St. Anthony
- (1947), oil on fabric
- 47.2 x 35.4 in. (120 x 90 cm.)
- Private collection
- 470 x 670 (87 KB)
Editor’s Note:
Here is a close up of the pig above:
Los Visitants
- [The Visitors]
- (1960), oil on canvas
- 39.5 by 31.6 in. (100.3 x 80.3 cm.)
- Private collection
- 500 x 632 (22 KB)
Nacimento de Cerdos
- [Pig-rush]
- (1960), oil on canvas
- 31.8 by 35.5 in. (80.6 x 90.2 cm.)
- Private collection
- 551 x 489 (68 KB)
Argument
- (1978), lithograph in 2 colors on paper
- 23.2 x 32.7 in. (59.0 x 83.0 cm.)
- Private collection
- 520 x 369 (78 KB)
Pig Pig Bite Snake
- (1951), oil on masonite
- 16.1 x 36 in. (40.9 x 91.4 cm.)
- Private collection
- 625 x 282 (44 KB)
Editor’s Note:
Carrington's works are luminous and finely detailed. Strange creatures, human, animal and mythological, inhabit landscapes and interior spaces, where they perform rituals of magic, incantation, transformation and regeneration.
Her art portrays a fantastic world, yet it seems eerily familiar. Themes focus on the magical, the mystical and the mysterious. Carrington presents her vision of the world and allows the viewer to enter, where she deftly constructs scenarios that encourage a suspension of disbelief, a move to a dreamlike state.