Leonora Carrington spent much of her childhood feeling out of place and not at home. As an adult she created replacement ...

When asked later, Carrington claims she had always been 'far more afraid of her father than she was of Hitler'. At the age of 19, Leonora was struck by the work of Max Ernst, a German painter and ...

RENOWNED Mexican novelist Elena Poniatowska has crafted a mightily expansive and breathlessly fictionalised biography — a “free approximation” as she terms it — of Surrealist painter Leonora ...

Leonora Carrington, an outstanding figure of surrealism, along with Frida Kahlo, was one of Mexico's most famous painters. As the long-time partner of Max Ernst and close friend of André Breton ...