Leonora Carrington tapped into a deep layer of Mexico's psyche. Mexicans have begun to love her for it
concrete walls of number 194 Calle Chihuahua, in Roma, a fashionable district of Mexico City, do not give much away. The façade is as plain as it comes. The windows are shuttered. Bang loudly on the wooden door and a security guard within answers: “There’s nobody here.” Ask why the house is described online as a museum and his answer is: “Fake news. There’s nothing here at all.”
But Carrington tapped into a deeper layer of Mexico’s psyche. And, increasingly, she is appreciated not just by the country’s connoisseurs—“The Giantess ”, sold for $1.5m a decade ago, and is now in a private collection—but by ordinary Mexicans.
Carrington divorced the diplomat, married another immigrant, Emerico “Chiki” Weisz, and was soon marooned in her first house in Roma with no money, a new husband and two small boys, juggling motherhood with painting. “Dalí is very lucky to be able to knock them off as he does,” she wrote sardonically to James, who had been one of Dalí’s biggest backers.
Both James and Carrington venerated animals. Her short stories such as “The Debutante” brought forth from her psyche the hyenas, horses and other creatures that would populate her art for the rest of her life. As Mr Weisz puts it, James had “a special communication with Leonora’s inner animal”. It is only through the intervention of an astute security guard that he is set right and sent up a flight of stairs to a rarely visited corner of the museum. There it is, luminous on a panel several metres long. No doubt Carrington would have chuckled at the haphazard journey to find it.
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