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Stoat Race (Ferret Race)
Details
Leonora Carrington (b. 1917)
Stoat Race (Ferret Race)
oil on canvas
39 x 226in. (101.5 x 56cm.)
Painted in 1950-51
Stoat Race (Ferret Race)
oil on canvas
39 x 226in. (101.5 x 56cm.)
Painted in 1950-51
Provenance
Galera de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Maureen Moorehead Carrington, England
Patrick Carrington, England
Private collection, Isle of Man
Maureen Moorehead Carrington, England
Patrick Carrington, England
Private collection, Isle of Man
Literature
W. Chadwick, Leonora Carrington, La Realidad de la Imaginacin, Ediciones Era, Mexico City, 1994, n. 27 (illustrated in color). Erroneously titled Ferret Race
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Pierre, Leonora Carrington, 1952, n. 17
London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington, Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1940-1990, p. 69, n. 21 (illusrated in color). Erroneously titled as Ferret Race
Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, Leonora Carrington Retrospective, p. 61, n. 19 (illustrated in color). Erroneously titled as Ferret Race. This exhibition later traveled to Osaka, Daimaru Museum, Feb. 11-23, 1998; Hida Takayama, Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Feb. 28-Mar. 29, 1998 and Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Apr. 4-May 5, 1998
London, Serpentine Gallery, Leonora Carrington, Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1940-1990, p. 69, n. 21 (illusrated in color). Erroneously titled as Ferret Race
Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, Leonora Carrington Retrospective, p. 61, n. 19 (illustrated in color). Erroneously titled as Ferret Race. This exhibition later traveled to Osaka, Daimaru Museum, Feb. 11-23, 1998; Hida Takayama, Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Feb. 28-Mar. 29, 1998 and Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Apr. 4-May 5, 1998