Caballo con crines largas

This is one of the four known paintings by Leonora Carrington painted in 1937. A second one of a horse in a girls' room; a double portrait of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst; and Fear (1941), which she finished in New York on the year she signed it. Carrington began these paintings in London before she moved to Paris to join the Surrealists. The two unfinished works depicting a horse were left behind by Carrington in her home in Saint-Martin-d'Ardeche, when she fled France during World War II. Max Ernst brought the double portrait with him, when he immigrated to America in 1941.

We are grateful to Dr. Salomón Grimberg for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot.