Lot Essay
Although Leonora Carrington had painted all of her life, it was not until she had children that her style and career as a painter consolidated.
The birth of her children brought to the forefront the original source of her creativity: the luminal space that links truth and make believe readily accessible in childhood.
In Peek-a-Boo (1961), Leonora Carrington shapes this ambiguous experience. A bird in flight approaches an oversized blue peach suspended in midair; a harp player enters the room riding an albino lion; a personage walks through a curtain.
Two topsy-turvy heads peek out at the scene. They are Carrington's children, Gabriel and Pablo. They are playing the game of peek-a-boo: now you see me, now you don't.
Salomon Grimberg
Dallas, March, 1996
The birth of her children brought to the forefront the original source of her creativity: the luminal space that links truth and make believe readily accessible in childhood.
In Peek-a-Boo (1961), Leonora Carrington shapes this ambiguous experience. A bird in flight approaches an oversized blue peach suspended in midair; a harp player enters the room riding an albino lion; a personage walks through a curtain.
Two topsy-turvy heads peek out at the scene. They are Carrington's children, Gabriel and Pablo. They are playing the game of peek-a-boo: now you see me, now you don't.
Salomon Grimberg
Dallas, March, 1996