Leonora Carrington Born: 6-Apr-1917 Birthplace: Chorley, Lancashire, England Died: 25-May-2011 Location of death: Mexico City, Mexico Cause of death: Pneumonia
Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Painter, Author, Sculptor Nationality: England Executive summary: Last surviving Surrealist Father: Harold Carrington (textile magnate) Mother: Maurie Moorhead (Irish) Brother: Pat Brother: Gerard Brother: Arthur Boyfriend: Max Ernst (cohabited 1937-40) Husband: Renato Leduc (Mexican diplomat, m. 1941 for political asylum in Mexico) Husband: Csizi Weisz ("Chiqui", Hungarian photographer, m. 1946) Son: Gabriel Weisz (teacher) Son: Pablo Weisz-Carrington (artist, b. 1947)
Surrealists (1937-40) Raped Madrid, Spain (1940) Nervous Breakdown Madrid, Spain (1940) Institutionalized Santander, Spain (1940-41) Naturalized Mexican Citizen 1942 Officer of the British Empire 2000 Irish Ancestry
Author of books:
La Maison de la Peur (1938, illustrated by Max Ernst) La Dame ovale (1939, stories) Down Below (1943, memoir) Une chemise de nuit de flanelle (1951, play) La Invencion del Mole (1960s, play) The Hearing Trumpet (1974, novel) The Stone Door (1976, novel) The Seventh Horse and Other Tales (1988, stories)
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