Artist Monograph

Leonora Carrington, British

British, 1917–2011

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Oil Painting	2	40%
Etching	1	20%
Watercolor	1	20%
Other Media	1	20%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	3	60%
Painting & Sculpture	2	40%

Classification Types

Painting — 2
Drawing — 2
Print — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	1	20%
Medium (30–100 cm)	4	80%

Range: 25.0 cm → 76.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1948	1
2014	1
2017	1
2019	2

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 5, 522" — 1

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 5 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Green Tea Painting Acc. 145.2019	1942	Oil on canvas	24 × 30" (61 × 76.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the Drue Heinz Trust (by exchange)
Untitled from VVV Portfolio Print Acc. 18.1948	1942, published 1943	Etching	plate: 7 15/16 x 9 13/16" (20.2 x 25 cm); sheet: 11 7/8 x 14" (30.1 x 35.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Bernard J. Reis
Kitchen Clock (Pendule de la cuisine) Drawing Acc. 526.2017	1943	Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on colored paper	16 1/2 × 13 7/8" (41.9 × 35.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Committee on Drawings and Prints Fund
Woman on a Bicycle Drawing Acc. 1075.2014	c. 1950s–60s	Ballpoint pen on paper	14 x 17" (35.6 x 43.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Lynn Hershman Leeson
And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur Painting Acc. 146.2019	1953	Oil on canvas	23 5/8 × 27 9/16" (60 × 70 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Joan H. Tisch (by exchange)