Leonora Carrington was bornin England in 1917. Her parent tried to send her to several strict Catholic and boarding schools for a proper education, but finally gave up and let her study art. She met Max Ernst in London and he left his wife to live with her in Paris in the late 1930's. During WWII, Ernst was interred in French concentration camps because he was German. Carrington left for Spain where she was committed to an asylum by her family and given drug shock treatment. In 1942 she found out that Ernst was with Peggy Guggenheim and married a friend Renato, for a brief marriage, moved briefly to NY, and later to Mexico where she settled. She now lives between NY and Mexico. She married a Mexican and had a son there. Carrington was a close friend of Remedios Varo and they often worked on similar projects or concocted whisical "magical" potions together. Carrington has painted and exhibited pretty much contuously throughout her life. She has also written books, one of which is The Hearing Trumpet. A couple of sites to look at are: www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/EdPs...rrington.html

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