Mundo Mágico de los Mayas

Details

Leonora Carrington (b. 1917)
Mundo Mágico de los Mayas
signed and dated 'Leonora Carrington 1965' lower right
pen and black ink and graphite on paper
12 x 18in. (30.5 x 45.8cm.)
Drawn in 1963

Provenance

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City

Exhibited

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism, Dec. 1984-Jan. 1985, n.n.

Lot Essay

This drawing is a sketch for the mural, El Mundo Mágico de los Mayas, executed in 1963-4 for the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. The sketch was drawn in 1963 but it was signed in 1965.

We are grateful for Dr. Salomon Grimberg's assistance in cataloguing this lot.