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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.75
People
Leonora Carrington, British, English (Clayton-le-Woods, England 1917 - 2011 Mexico City)
Title
Brothers and Sisters Have I None
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1942
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357933

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
37.1 × 47.3 cm (14 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., in black ink: Leonora Carrington
  • inscription: on recto, l.l., in black ink: 3 / 9 / 1942 / 1954 = 19 = 90 / 20 / 2
  • watermark: l.l.: STRATHMORE ARTIST
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: Carrington

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, Purchase through the generosity of Elaine Levin
Copyright
© Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.75
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Lund Humphries (Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT, 2004), p. 52, no. 32, ill. (as published in the First Papers of Surrealism)
  • Leonora Carrington, Revelation, ed. Fundación MAPFRE (Madrid, 2023), pg. 156, fig. 53, ill. color

Exhibition History

  • First Papers of Surrealism, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 10/14/1942 - 11/07/1942
  • L'altra metà dell'Avanguardia 1910-40, Palazzo Reale, 02/14/1980 - 05/18/1980; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 07/03/1980 - 08/08/1980; Kulturhuset, 02/14/1981 - 05/03/1981
  • 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, 10/18/2018 - 04/18/2019
  • Leonora Carrington. Revelation, Fundación MAPFRE, 02/08/2023 - 05/07/2023

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