From Chorley to Mexico City - a surrealist pioneer's incredible journey

The painting Les Distractions de Dagobert, described as the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’ sold at auction for an eye-watering £22.5m. It was a record for a British-born female artist.

Close by was Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who referred to Carrington and her friends as "those European b*****s". She reportedly considered them 'overintellectual'. She was daughter to Harold Wylde Carrington, a wealthy textile manufacturer and mother Marie from Ireland. When she left the UK in 1937, it would be the last time she saw her father. First settling in France, she fled before the outbreak of the Second World War - and the arrival of the Nazis. Before reaching Mexico, her journey would take her to Madrid and then New York.

However, this wasn't her first piece of Surrealism. The artist also painted Self-Portrait, also known as The Inn of the Dawn Horse which is exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before then, Leonora visited Mexico which she began to love - it is where she would ultimately, spend the rest of her life. The success of the Surrealist movement over in the Central American country allowed the artist to build connections, eventually landing her own solo exhibition at the Galeria Clardecor.

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