Leonora Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Lancashire, UK, on 6 April 1917. She studied at The Chelsea School of Art and was the lover of Max Ernst a leading exponent of Surrealism. She emigrated to Mexico during the second World War, dividing her time between Mexico City, New York and Chicago, but her last longtime home and inspiration was Mexico. It was once famously dubbed a "surrealist country" by writer, poet and founder of the Surrealist Movement, Andre Breton who cherished it for its colorful and sometimes grotesque costumes, masks, rituals and dances.
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