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

Ode to Necrophilia, 1962

Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from Oda a la Necrofilia (Ode to Necrophilia), 1962. | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from Oda a la Necrofilia (Ode to Necrophilia), 1962. | src Princeton University Art Museum

Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956

Kati Horna ~ Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956. Remedios Varo, posing with a mask by Leonora Carrington | src Morton Subastas
Kati Horna ~ Portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna (1912-2000) ~ Remedios Varo with a mask made by Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1957 | src NYBooks
Kati Horna ~ Surreal portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum

Remedios Varo and the mask

Kati Horna (1912-2000) ~ Remedios Varo with a mask by Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1957 | src NYBooks
Kati Horna ~ Portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna ~ Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956. Varo, posing with a mask made by Leonora Carrington | src Morton Subastas
Kati Horna ~ Surreal portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum

Ode to Necrophilia, 1962

Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from the series Oda a la necrofilia, Ciudad de México, 1962. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from the series Oda a la necrofilia, Ciudad de México, 1962. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled (from the series ‘Ode to Necrophilia’), Mexico, 1962. Published in S.nob magazine, issue number 1, 1962

Oda a la necrofilia, 1962

Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), series Oda a la necrofilia, Ciudad de México, 1962. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from ‘Ode to Nechrophilia’ series, 1962. © Ana María Norah Horna y Fernández
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from ‘Ode to Nechrophilia’ series, 1962. Museo Amparo Collection.
Kati Horna :: Leonora (Ode to Nechrophilia series) signed ‘Kati Horna’ (on the verso) gelatin silver print. Mexico City, circa 1962. | src Christie’s This image was published in S.nob magazine, issue number 1, 1962.