Leonora Carrington

Strength

(Tarot Card) ca. 1955

Tarot cards by Mexican-British painter Leonora Carrington, 1955.

Alice Rahon (1904-1987) The Androgyne [brass wire and sheet, 1946]

The Giantess, Leonora Carrington, 1950

Frida Kahlo, "What the Water Gave Me", 1938

"Like all Kahlo's work, this painting manifests her lifelong battle with pain. In English, it is also called What I Saw in the Water and is a self-portrait of the artist [...] Dominating the painting are those terrifying toes. As a child Kahlo had both polio and spina bifida, which was only diagnosed when she was 23. [...] When Kahlo was 18, her pelvis was smashed in a bus crash and a broken rail pierced her abdomen and uterus. Of the 30-plus subsequent operations she endured, most were on her back, right leg and right foot and the wreckage in the painting is densest over her right leg." – Ruth Padel

Kati Horna (Hungarian-born, Mexican) • Leonora Carrington with Doll • 1960

Capillary Locomotion 1959

Remedios Varo (1908 - 1963)

Oil/ Masonite Spanish-Mexican Artist

Carlos Orozco Romero

Sueño, 1940

Oil on canvas.

Remedios Varo, Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst (1960)

In Mexico, Varo is a name you hear in the same breath as Frida Kahlo. Yet she is one of many mid-century women surrealists who were mostly overlooked until fairly recently. Unlike artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Max Ernst, many of the women associated with surrealism are seen of less importance or framed as “muses.”

Rosa Rolanda (American 1895-1970), Autorretrato Self-Portrait (Self-Portrait), 1952. Oil on canvas  (Source, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City)

Leonora Carrington

The High Priestess

(Tarot Card) ca. 1955

The Devil, Leonora Carrington, 1955.

Alice Rahon (1904-1987) — October Moon [oil on canvas, 1948]

Alchemy or the Useless Science, Remedios Varo, 1958

Primieval Unconscious: Worlds Before/Beyond Worlds🦁🪐🦄

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Leonora Carrington

Remedios Varo (Spanish, active in Mexico – 1908-1963) • Harmony • 1956