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Leonora Carrington

1917 - 2011

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Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was a British-born, naturalized Mexican surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonora Carrington has received more than 1,320,486 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Leonora Carrington is the 375th most popular painter (down from 362nd in 2019), the 793rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 818th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Painter.

Leonora Carrington is most famous for her surrealist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Leonora Carrington ranks 375 out of 2,023. Before her are Paul Sérusier, Norman Rockwell, Willem Claesz. Heda, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Francesco Melzi, and Émile Bernard. After her are Édouard Vuillard, Aelbert Cuyp, Marie Laurencin, Robert Rauschenberg, Giuseppe Castiglione, and David Teniers the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Leonora Carrington ranks 54. Before her are Manolete, Andrew Huxley, John Cornforth, Violeta Parra, Maurice Duverger, and William Standish Knowles. After her are Chung Il-kwon, Thelonious Monk, Susan Hayward, John Fenn, Masahiko Kimura, and Asmahan. Among people deceased in 2011, Leonora Carrington ranks 48. Before her are Zdeněk Miler, Betty Ford, Har Gobind Khorana, Amy Winehouse, Gunter Sachs, and Richard Winters. After her are Aristides Pereira, Diana Wynne Jones, Ante Marković, Alberto Granado, Pete Postlethwaite, and Linda Christian.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leonora Carrington ranks 793 out of 8,785. Before her are Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Robert Peel (1788), Thomas Malory (1405), and Tom Hardy (1977). After her are Tom Conti (1941), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Sawney Bean (1600), Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), and John Ambrose Fleming (1849).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Leonora Carrington ranks 9. Before her are William Hogarth (1697), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827). After her are Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Richard Hamilton (1922), Edmund Leighton (1852), John Tenniel (1820), and Frederic Leighton (1830).

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