Fondation Giacometti

Leonora Carrington, of English nationality, spent most of her life in Mexico, having lived a short time in France and then in the United States. Her imagination, nourished by nonsense, developed in contact with surrealism, in France, with Max Ernst, with whom she lived for three years before the war. She writes but  also paints, having acquired a solid technique at a young age in Amédée Ozenfant's studio in London. Her quest for mythical thought took off in Mexico City, such as in Chiapas, where she stayed to paint one of her masterpieces. After a long stay in New York, she returned to her Mexican roots. The cultural roots of this great work, unfortunately scarcely preserved or exhibited in France, are fascinatingly diverse.