Lot 12
12
LEONORA CARRINGTON

Details
LEONORA CARRINGTON

The Cockcrow

oil and gold leaf on canvas
26½ x 33¾in. (67.3 x 85.7cm.)

Painted in 1946
Provenance
Collection of The Trustees of the Edward James Foundation, West Dean
Literature
P. Purser, Where is He Now? The Extraordinary Worlds of Edward James, Quartet Books, London, 1978, p. 69 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Pierre, Leonora Carrington, 1952, no. 8
New York, Center for Inter-American Relations, Leonora Carrington, A Retrospective Exhibition, Nov., 1975-Jan. 1976, no. 15. This exhibition later traveled to Austin, University of Texas, University Art Museum.
London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures 1940-1990, 1991, n. 76

Lot Essay

"The unexpected is the only thing that is certain. The logic behind the cause and effect equation is never the same. Who will be blessed or punished is unclear.
The cockcrow could be an omen when one is expecting a signal. When a cock struts up to the door of the house and crows, the housewife is warned a stranger may soon be approaching. But a cockcrow also means a neighbor's house is giving up the ghost."
Salomon Grimberg
Dallas, 1994

We are grateful to Dr. Grimberg for his help in cataloguing this painting.