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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 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 1,206,059 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Leonora Carrington is the 363rd most popular painter (up from 365th in 2019), the 818th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 820th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Painter.

Leonora Carrington is most famous for her surrealist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Leonora Carrington ranks 363 out of 1,421. Before her are Max Liebermann, Johan Christian Dahl, Aleksandra Ekster, Taddeo Gaddi, Palma Vecchio, and Gino Severini. After her are Federico Zuccari, Paul Sérusier, Stefan Lochner, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, John Bauer, and Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Leonora Carrington ranks 54. Before her are Jack Kirby, Leonid Hurwicz, Violeta Parra, Maurice Duverger, Rodney Robert Porter, and Dinu Lipatti. After her are David McClelland, Manolete, Masahiko Kimura, John Fenn, William Standish Knowles, and Susan Hayward. Among people deceased in 2011, Leonora Carrington ranks 53. Before her are Cliff Robertson, Bubba Smith, Michael Cacoyannis, Jorge Semprún, Maria Altmann, and Ernesto Sabato. After her are Michael Gough, Har Gobind Khorana, Richard Hamilton, Lucian Freud, Ralph M. Steinman, and Roberts Blossom.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leonora Carrington ranks 818 out of 7,765. Before her are James Hadley Chase (1906), Peter Benenson (1921), Brian Epstein (1934), Louise of Great Britain (1724), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), and Rex Harrison (1908). After her are Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Mary Kingsley (1862), Denis Thatcher (1915), Paul Grice (1913), Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508), and Charlotte Cooper (1870).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Leonora Carrington ranks 8. Before her are John Constable (1776), William Hogarth (1697), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), John Everett Millais (1829), and Louis Wain (1860). After her are Richard Hamilton (1922), William Holman Hunt (1827), Frederic Leighton (1830), John Tenniel (1820), Edmund Leighton (1852), and Joseph Wright of Derby (1734).

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