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Łempicka exhibition draws record crowds to Kraków National Museum

Radio Poland Mar 21, 2023 An exhibition of work by Polish Art Deco artist Tamara Łempicka drew a record number of visitors to the National... Read more

Jacqueline Lamba - Scandalous Beauty

Art & Antiques Magazine FEB 2023 THE LIFE AND ART OF JACQUELINE LAMBA SHED EXTRAORDINARY LIGHT ON A FEMALE SURREALIST'S PLACE IN THE WORLD OF HER... Read more

Frieze Tate Fund Acquires Works for the National Collection at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2022

Frieze Magazine OCT 2022 Supported by Endeavor, Tate acquires pieces by Romany Eveleigh, Leonor Fini, Lewis Hammond, Rita Keegan, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra... Read more

Fini Featured in 5 Modern Women Artists to Know

Daily Art Magazine MAR 2022 When we think of modern women artists, certain names immediately come to mind. For instance, anyone can name Frida Kahlo... Read more

Leonor Fini: I’m Not a Muse, I’m an Artist

Daily Art Magazine SEPT 2022 Read at Daily ARt Magazine Read more

Records for Under-Recognized Artists Bring Sotheby’s Modern Art Sale to $408.5 M.

ARTnews May 2022 Against the backdrop of a busy week for art in New York headlined by the Frieze art fair, a sale... Read more

Under a revolutionary, emancipatory spell: Venice exhibition explores Surrealism’s interest in the occult

The Art Newspaper APR 2022 Major show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes works by leading lights of Surrealism, including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning... Read more

‘In 2022 perhaps it’s easier for us to connect with the mindset of the Surrealists’

Christie's MAR 2022 As the exhibition Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity opens in Venice, its curator Gražina Subelytė talks to Christie's about the... Read more

Who Was Leonora Carrington? The Untold Story of the Mystical Surrealist Whose Visions Shaped the 2022 Venice Biennale

Artnet MAR 2022 The 1985 publication of Whitney Chadwick's Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement radically upended art historians' understanding of surrealism. Though... Read more

For this Surrealist art couple, love was an alien landscape

The Washington Post FEB 2022 We typically associate romance with images of sunsets on the beach and candlelit dinners. Not alien landscapes. But in 1936,... Read more

Why Leonora Carrington’s Work Feels So of the Moment

W Magazine FEB 2022 On Wednesday, the Venice Biennale announced the lineup for its 2022 edition, a 'transhistoric exhibition' emphasizing female and gendernonconforming artists... Read more

With a Majority-Female 2022 Edition, the Venice Biennale Will Make History for Women Artists

ARTnews FEB 2022 Since it started in 1895, the Venice Biennale has been an every-other-year barometer of the global art world. As such,... Read more

Time capsules, more women and a room for Paula Rego: curator Cecilia Alemani reveals her plans for this year’s Venice Biennale

The Art Newspaper FEB 2022 The artistic director of the 2022 Venice Biennale, Cecilia Alemani, outlined today at a press conference her curatorial plans for... Read more

Françoise Gilot: ‘It Girl’ at 100

The New York Times JAN 2022 Seated bolt upright on a cream-colored sofa, Françoise Gilot was as grave as an oracle, an impression enhanced by her... Read more

Enrico Donati Sets Auction Record at $867,000

Artnet Nov 16, 2021 ...The sale set a handful of new artist records, first with Enrico Donati’s Spaziale Fiorito (1948), going for $867,000 over... Read more

Leonor Fini’s Les Aveugles (1968) finds success at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale

ARTnews Nov 16, 2021 Following the record sale of the Kahlo, lots by female Latin American surrealists also found success on Tuesday. Leonor Fini’s... Read more

Surrealism Beyond Borders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Oct 11, 2021 New surrealism exhibition features works by Leonora Carrington, Gerome Kamrowski, Kurt Seligmann, and Remedios Varo. See more about the exhibition Read more

We Asked 10 Art-World Insiders Which Artists They’re Most Excited to Watch Over the Next Decade. Here’s What They Said

Artnet OCT 2021 ...Brooke Lampley, Sotheby's chairman and worldwide head of sales for global fine art, New York I'm excited about the continued... Read more

Señor Mustache Mustache and a sinister taco-seller: Leonora Carrington's son on the colourful characters inspiring the next Venice Biennale

The Art Newspaper Jul 2, 2021 The title for next year’s Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, was inspired by Gabriel Weisz Carrington’s memories of the... Read more

Paying Tribute to Leonora Carrington, 2022 Venice Biennale Takes the Title ‘The Milk of Dreams’

ARTnews Jun 9, 2021 The 59th edition of the Venice Biennale will be titled “The Milk of Dreams,” the exhibition’s artistic director, Cecilia Alemani... Read more

Francoise Gilot Sets Record at Sotheby's

ARTnews Jun 1, 2021 Among the most successful lots was centenarian French painter Françoise Gilot’s Paloma à la Guitare (1965), a blue-toned portrait of... Read more

Stella Snead in Phantoms of Surrealism at Whitechapel

Artdaily May 21, 2021 Whitechapel Gallery ’s new archive exhibition, Phantoms of Surrealism, brings together artworks, photographic scrapbooks, press cuttings and original correspondence from... Read more

Autoportrait au scorpion by Leonor Fini more than doubles the Argentine-Italian artist's world record at auction

The Art Newspaper May 13, 2021 The evening of sales in New York totalled $439.6m, with Basquiat's Versus Medici topping the contemporary art offering at $50.8m... Read more

Leonor Fini’s Autoportrait au scorpion sets a new auction record at $2,319,000

Sotheby's May 12, 2021 Leonor Fini’s arresting Autoportrait au scorpion, the only self-portrait the artist chose not to sell in her lifetime, set a... Read more

Alyce Mahon and The Art Newspaper discuss Leonor Fini on the podcast The Week in Art

The Week in Art Jul 10, 2020 Host Ben Luke sits down with esteemed curator and author Alyce Mahon to discuss her new book The Marquis de... Read more

Leonor Fini, Alice Rahon and Remedios Varo paintings set new auction records

Artsy Jun 30, 2020 The first major test of the upper echelons of the secondary market since COVID-19 shut down most of the world’s... Read more

Sotheby’s Global Hybrid Online Evening Sale Soars to $363.2 M.

ARTnews Jun 30, 2020 The art market reopened last night with a resounding bang as Sotheby’s sold $363.2 million in modern and contemporary art... Read more

Sotheby’s Middling Impressionist and Modern Sale Nets $62.8 Million Thanks to a Major Boost From Latin American Treasures

Artnet Jun 30, 2020 Even though sales categories have become increasingly fluid at major auction houses—whether the blending is organic or the result of... Read more

"We are all Surrealists now": how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown

The Art Newspaper Apr 14, 2020 'Safety, under any circumstances, is an illusion.' It’s more than a decade since the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington said those... Read more

Of Women Who Rule the World

SCHIRN Magazine Apr 12, 2020 In her art, Leonor Fini created a new social order, populated by sphinxes and militant heroines. And was inspired by... Read more

Top Ten Surrealists: From Dorothea Tanning to Man Ray

AnOther Magazine Mar 5, 2020 Surrealism – that seminal artistic and literary movement led by French poet André Breton – has continued to inspire creative... Read more

Surrealism Was a Decidedly Feminine Movement. So Why Have So Many of Its Great Women Artists Been Forgotten?

Artnet Feb 18, 2020 Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they... Read more

Weinstein Gallery lends artwork to the Fantastic Women exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt

Feb 13, 2020 Weinstein Gallery is honored to be a lender to the Fantastic Women exhibition mounted by the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt... Read more

Wolfgang Paalen Retrospective at the Belvedere Museum Vienna

Oct 4, 2019 He was the only Austrian in the circle of Parisian Surrealists, at Frida Kahlo’s invitation he moved to Mexico, and... Read more

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University

Sep 3, 2019 Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein is a groundbreaking exhibition that explores how modern art was influenced by... Read more

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein at Amherst College

Mar 28, 2019 View the exhibition website at Amherst.edu Read more

Leonor Fini's long-awaited catalogue raisonné now available

Feb 21, 2019 Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné Read more

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein at BAMPFA

Nov 7, 2018 In the early twentieth century, inspired by modern science such as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, an emerging avant-garde movement... Read more

Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Oct 20, 2018 As Europe lurched toward fascism and America fought in the Second World War, no other artists produced images more powerfully... Read more

Leonora Carrington: Magic Tales at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO)

Oct 12, 2018 The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey presents Leonora Carrington. Magic Tales , a major retrospective exhibition that explores the... Read more

Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy, and the Avant-Garde the Barbican

Oct 10, 2018 Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet... Read more

Modern Couples at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

Apr 28, 2018 Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar, the Delaunay’s, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray and Lee Miller, the Eames’s are... Read more

We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism at the Museo Picasso Málaga

Oct 10, 2017 We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism presents the work of a group of women artists who, from the... Read more

Moholy-Nagy: Future Present at LACMA

Feb 12, 2017 The first comprehensive retrospective of the work of László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) in the United States in nearly 50 years, this... Read more

Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Feb 10, 2017 Solomon R. Guggenheim ’s wholehearted embrace of modern art around the age of 68 was not so dissimilar from his... Read more

Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection and the Gibbes Museum of Art at the Gibbes Museum of Art

Oct 22, 2016 In 1936 the Gibbes Museum of Art presented the first formal exhibition of Solomon R. Guggenheim’s collection of modern art.... Read more

Moholy-Nagy: Future Present at The Art Institute of Chicago

Sep 29, 2016 Painting, photography, film, sculpture, advertising, product design, theater sets—László Moholy-Nagy (American, born Hungary, 1895–1946) did it all. Future Present, the... Read more

I had an Interesting French Artist to See Me this Summer at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Jul 1, 2016 This first pairing of the Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen (1905–1959) and Emily Carr (1871–1945) will tell the story of how... Read more

Moholy-Nagy: Future Present at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

May 27, 2016 László Moholy-Nagy (b. 1895, Borsód, Austria-Hungary; d. 1946, Chicago) believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social... Read more

Leonora Carrington at the Tate Liverpool

Mar 6, 2015 Leonora Carrington invites you to discover the fantastical creations of the prolific painter and internationally celebrated member of the surrealist... Read more

Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas at Bildmuseet

Feb 2, 2014 The exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? highlights the diversity of Leonor Fini’s expression and presents paintings, drawings, objects, book... Read more