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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.76
People
Leonora Carrington, British, English (Clayton-le-Woods, England 1917 - 2011 Mexico City)
Title
Map of Down Below
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1941
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357934

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
32.4 × 25.1 cm (12 3/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: 5 / 586 / [illegible letters and marks]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of André Breton, Paris. [Galerie 1900-2000, Paris], sold; to Roy and Mary Cullen, Texas; [Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2017.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher 1986 Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.76
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Leonora Carrington, "Down Below", VVV (New York, 1944), No. 4, pp. 70-86, p. 78, ill.
  • Leonora Carrington and Dutton, The House of Fear, Notes from Down Below (New York, 1988), p. 189, ill.
  • Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Lund Humphries (Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT, 2004), p. 50, no. 30, ill. (as published in the Surrealist periodical VVV, 1944)
  • Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealismo, alquimia y arte, Océano (Madrid and Mexico City, 2004), no. 50
  • Ara H. Merjian, Leonora Carrington: The Talismanic Lens, Frey Norris Gallery (San Francisco, 2008), p. 5, ill.
  • Leonora Carrington, Revelation, ed. Fundación MAPFRE (Madrid, 2023), pg. 140, fig. 44, ill. color

Exhibition History

  • First Papers of Surrealism, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 10/14/1942 - 11/07/1942
  • Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 06/19/2010 - 09/12/2010; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 09/28/2010 - 12/12/2010
  • Drawing Surrealism, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 10/21/2012 - 01/06/2013; The Morgan Library & Museum, 01/25/2013 - 04/21/2013
  • Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 09/18/2013 - 01/26/2014
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/18/2019 - 10/17/2019
  • Leonora Carrington. Revelation, Fundación MAPFRE, 02/08/2023 - 05/07/2023

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