![]() ![]() Now, in this centenary year of her birth, her international fame is finally secure, though her pictures and stories remain as surprising as ever. Even then, it is only over the last decade or so, before and after her death in 2011, that interest in her work has quickened sharply. For decades, Carrington was largely unknown in the US and her native Britain, until recognition began to build in the mid-1980s. Moorhead got an identical reaction when, in the same year – 2009 – she called to say that Carrington’s carnivalesque feminist story The Hearing Trumpet had appeared in a list of novels everyone should read. W hen Joanna Moorhead told Leonora Carrington that her surreal, Bosch-inspired painting The Giantess had been sold at Christie’s in New York for $1.5m, the artist thought she must be joking. ![]()
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