Oil paint on fibreboard
Tate Modern
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on display
General Collection
Collection
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Eluhim
Lent from a private collection 2009
abstraction
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: actions
animals: birds
animals: features
animals: fish and aquatic life
animals: mammals
bird - non-specific
bull
figure
fish
fish hook
from recognisable sources
leaping
lion
objects
pig
pool
swimming
water: inland
wing
<p>Whilst informed by theories of the unconscious mind, Carrington developed a personal language of Surrealism which extended beyond Freud. She attributes her affinity with the movement both to the Irish folktales recounted by her nanny and the imaginative inner world of her mother, whom she described as a ‘complete mythologist’. Having been involved with the Surrealists in Paris before the Second World War, she settled in Mexico in 1942. This new, visionary stage in her work was influenced by Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450 - 1516) and by her interest in alchemical imagery. <span>Eluhim</span>, the title of this work, is a Hebrew word for ‘God’ or ‘gods’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, January 2022</em></p>
painting oil paint fibreboard
19 June 2010 – 12 December 2010
2010-12-12
19 June 2010 – 12 September 2010
2010-09-12
2010-06-19
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
28 September 2010 – 12 December 2010
2010-12-12
2010-09-28
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
2010-06-19
Surreal Friends
Loan-out
6 March 2015 – 31 May 2015
2015-05-31
6 March 2015 – 31 May 2015
2015-05-31
2015-03-06
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2015-03-06
Leonora Carrington
Exhibition
21 May 2016
21 May 2016
2016-05-21
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2016-05-21
International Surrealism
Collection based display
21 April 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
21 April 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
2018-04-21
Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, Mexico)
11 October 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
2018-10-11
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey  (Monterrey, Mexico)
http://www.marco.org.mx
2018-04-21
Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales
Loan-out
Eluhim
support: 913 × 373 × 5 mm
frame: 1017 × 475 × 40 mm
Lent from a private collection 2009
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<p>Whilst informed by theories of the unconscious mind, Carrington developed a personal language of Surrealism which extended beyond Freud. She attributes her affinity with the movement both to the Irish folktales recounted by her nanny and the imaginative inner world of her mother, whom she described as a ‘complete mythologist’. Having been involved with the Surrealists in Paris before the Second World War, she settled in Mexico in 1942. This new, visionary stage in her work was influenced by Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450 - 1516) and by her interest in alchemical imagery. <i>Eluhim</i>, the title of this work, is a Hebrew word for ‘God’ or ‘gods’. </p>
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abstraction agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: actions animals: birds animals: features animals: fish and aquatic life animals: mammals bird - non-specific bull figure fish fish hook from recognisable sources leaping lion objects pig pool swimming water: inland wing