Leonora Carrington
The exhibition
Grandmother Moorhead’s Aromatic Cuisine is currently on display
in the final room of the solo exhibition dedicated to her at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the first exhibition in France to be entirely devoted to her. We owe this necessary historical redress to curators Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín, who are passionate about Carrington’s work and have successfully highlighted the breadth of her oeuvre, which is far more comprehensive and complex than the categories “surrealist,” “female artist,” and “naive artist”—into which she has often been pigeonholed—would suggest.
Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 into a wealthy family in Clayton Green, England. The rebellious young woman was expelled from several schools before her rather traditional parents came to terms with the reality: they had raised a budding artist.
Excerpt from Judith Prigent’s article published in issue No. 117 of the magazine Art Absolument.
in the final room of the solo exhibition dedicated to her at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the first exhibition in France to be entirely devoted to her. We owe this necessary historical redress to curators Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín, who are passionate about Carrington’s work and have successfully highlighted the breadth of her oeuvre, which is far more comprehensive and complex than the categories “surrealist,” “female artist,” and “naive artist”—into which she has often been pigeonholed—would suggest.
Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 into a wealthy family in Clayton Green, England. The rebellious young woman was expelled from several schools before her rather traditional parents came to terms with the reality: they had raised a budding artist.
Excerpt from Judith Prigent’s article published in issue No. 117 of the magazine Art Absolument.
When
18/02/2026 - 19/07/2026