4 women asleep and a giantess

Roland Penrose :: Four Women Asleep (Lee Miller, Adrienne Fidelin, Nusch Eluard, and Leonora Carrington), Lambe Creek, Cornwall, 1937. Print from color reversal film. © Roland Penrose Estate | src Lee Miller

Surrealist artist Mary Leonora Carrington was born at Westwood House (in Clayton Green, England) on the 6th of April in 1917; today she would have turned 106.

Leonora Carrington :: The Giantess (also, The Guardian of the Egg), 1947. Tempera on wood. Private collection of Miguel Escobedo

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