The museum galleries are haunted by a veritable menagerie of bronze sculptures both small and enormous that portray strange and nightmarish phantasmagoric entities that look like they could belong in the Guillermo Del Toro movie Pan’s Labyrinth. However, these eerie gothic masterpieces are the artistic legacy of Leonora Carrington, one of the most prolific artists in Surrealism whose work is little-known outside of Mexico. Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 in Lancashire, and was the daughter of a wealthy local industrialist. As a child, she had a rebellious nature that cared…
