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Leonora Carrington

1917 - 2011

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Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was a British-born, naturalised Mexican Surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonora Carrington is the 388th most popular painter (down from 375th in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 793rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Painter.

Leonora Carrington is most famous for her surrealist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Leonora Carrington ranks 388 out of 2,023. Before her are Giovanni Segantini, Paulus Potter, Polygnotus, Lovis Corinth, Armand Guillaumin, and Elisabetta Sirani. After her are Pietro Longhi, Albert Marquet, Johan Zoffany, Erich Heckel, Stefan Lochner, and Pietro Cavallini.

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Among people born in 1917, Leonora Carrington ranks 62. Before her are Kunitaka Sueoka, Jane Wyman, Edward Norton Lorenz, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, and Violeta Parra. After her are John Lee Hooker, Thelonious Monk, Juan Rulfo, Cyrus Vance, Louis Zamperini, and Manolete. Among people deceased in 2011, Leonora Carrington ranks 54. Before her are Tom Gehrels, Ernesto Sabato, Linda Christian, Ante Marković, Aristides Pereira, and Yelena Bonner. After her are Tomislav Ivić, Alberto Granado, Masahiro Hamazaki, Itamar Franco, Diana Wynne Jones, and Jorge Semprún.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leonora Carrington ranks 968 out of 8,785. Before her are Edmund Spenser (1552), Jessica Tandy (1909), Brenda Blethyn (1946), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), Robert FitzRoy (1805), and John Ray (1627). After her are James Hadley Chase (1906), Kim Cattrall (1956), John Dryden (1631), Richard Stone (1913), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Leonora Carrington ranks 13. Before her are John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Louis Wain (1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827). After her are John Tenniel (1820), Richard Hamilton (1922), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), and Edmund Leighton (1852).

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