A significant painting by the renowned surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, created during her stay in a Spanish psychiatric hospital during World War II, is set to be exhibited publicly for the first time in London this summer. Titled “Villa Pilar,” this evocative work dates back to 1940. Carrington painted it while a patient at the Morales sanatorium in Santander. This period followed her escape from Nazi-occupied France, prompted by the arrest of her partner, the German artist Max Ernst.
Leonora Carrington’s “Villa Pilar”: A Masterpiece from Psychiatric Confinement Unveiled
By Rupert Blackwood
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