Property from🌜 a Distinguished Private American Collection
La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman)
Auction Closed
November 19, 02:32 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
P♛roperty from a Distinguished Private American Collection
Leonora Carrington
(1917 - 2011)
La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman)
oil on wood
height: 79 ½ in.
201.9 cm.
Executed in 1951.
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming 💛the authentici🌳ty of this work.
Edward James, United Kingdom
Ed💛ward James Foundation, Suss🍎ex (acquired from the above)
The Mayor Gall൩ery, London (on consignment from the above)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired f🅠rom the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 15 November 1994, lot 31 (consigned 🍌by the above)
Ramis Barquet, New York (ac💮q📖uired at the above sale)
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above on 18 Ma𒐪rc🍒h 1996 by the present owner
Juan García Ponce and Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1974, p. 6, illustrated
Edward Melly, The Secret Life of Edward James, ATV Networ⛎ks Ltd., video, 1978, 4 min., 6 sec., illustrated
Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Boston, 1985, no. 173, p. 198, illustrated; p. 250 (titled Carved Decorated Woman)
Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, New Yo♍rk, 2021, p. 251, illustrated in 🅠color; pp. 314-15
Joanna Moorhead, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, Princeton and♑ Oxford, 2023, p. 154, illustrated in color; 🐈p. 155
London, Serpentine Gallery; Preston, Harris Museum and Bristol, Arnolfini, Leonora Carrington Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1940-1990, 1991-92, no. 26, p. 72, illustrated in color (de🍸tail); p. 73, illustrated in color; p. 110
London, Tate Modern and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, 2001-02, no. 194, p. 328, illustrated in color
New York, Di Donna Gallery, Surrealism in Mexico, 2019, pp. 96-97, illustrated in color
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Women. Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, 2🤡020, p. 258, illustrated in color; p. 259 detail illus🔴trated in color
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, 2022-23, n𝓀o. 97, p🍷p. 78 and 231, illustrated in color; p. 259
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