Selected News
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Leonora Carrington painting smashes artist’s auction record, fetching $28.5 million at Sotheby’s.
Artsy May 16, 2024 Sotheby’s modern auction in New York last night totaled $235.1 million, nearing the top end of the pre-sale estimate of... Read more -
Sotheby's makes $198.1m in consistently strong Modern evening sale in New York
The Art Newspaper May 16, 2024 The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert' ...Surrealism played a... Read more -
As Surrealism Turns 100, a Look at Its Enduring Legacy
ARTNET Apr 24, 2024 Few movements in art history have had as lasting a legacy as Surrealism, which utterly transformed our manner of thinking... Read more
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Musée d’Arts de Nantes aquires a Leonor Fini
World Art News Apr 2, 2024 In a notable display of support for female artists, the Musée d’Arts de Nantes exercised its right under French law... Read more -
The Humanness of Hilla Rebay’s Spirituality
Guggenheim Museums Mar 1, 2024 Artist Hilla Rebay , a key figure in the development of the Guggenheim Museum, believed that an artist served as... Read more -
The Phantasmagoric Allure of Leonor Fini
ARTNET Mar 1, 2024 As Surrealism's centennial nears, its dark star Leonor Fini's legend is peaking. Her life was as idiosyncratic as her daring,... Read more
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Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.
NYTimes Feb 28, 2024 Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us... Read more -
Art Deco Star Tamara de Lempicka Is Finally Getting Her First Major U.S. Retrospective
ARTNET Feb 1, 2024 This fall, San Francisco's de Young Museum will spotlight the creative life and legacy of the trailblazing artist. For a... Read more -
State of the Art Market: Surrealist Women Awakening
ARTNET Dec 13, 2023 With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked... Read more
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'She was a pure creator.' The art world rediscovers Surrealist painter Leonor Fini
NPR Dec 7, 2023 An overlooked female artist is starting to get her due. Nearly 30 years after her death, Leonor Fini's captivating, often... Read more -
Surrealist Leonor Fini makes a Miami Beach splash
The Art Newspaper Dec 7, 2023 Amid surging interest in women Surrealists, Galerie Minsky and Weinstein Gallery devoted their joint stand to the Argentine painter One... Read more -
Judy Chicago "Herstory" at the New Museum
Oct 12, 2023 - March 3, 2024 Nov 28, 2023 “Judy Chicago: Herstory” will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting,... Read more
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Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici - Insomnia at MART Rovereto
July 16 - Nov 5, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 Commemorating the long and close relationship between Leonor Fini and Fabrizio Clerici is the immense exhibition at the Mart di... Read more -
Remedios Varo - Science Fiction at the Art Institute of Chicago
July 29 - November 27, 2023 july 29, 2023 Born in Spain, Varo (María de los Remedios Alicia y Rodriga Varo y Uranga) fled Europe in 1941 due to... Read more -
Why Remedios Varo, one of the ‘three witches’ of surrealism, continues to fascinate
CNN Nov 28, 2023 In her Mexico City studio, the artist Remedios Varo — who painted meticulous, fantastical scenes in the mid-20th century —... Read more
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Leonor Fini returning to the limelight
Artprice Jul 25, 2023 At a time when collectors favor figurative art with a Surrealist tendency and when women artists are the focus of... Read more -
Klimt’s ‘Lady With a Fan’ Sets a New Auction Record in Europe, Making $108.4 Million at Sotheby’s Mini-Marathon of London Sales
ARTNET Jun 27, 2023 ..Other highlights included Jenny Saville’s Shadow Study (2006–07) which sold for £3.4 million ($4.4 million). The work previously came to... Read more -
5 Late LGBTQ+ Artists Finally Getting Their Due
Artsy Jun 9, 2023 LGBTQ+ artists have long been excluded from popular narratives and public recognition both in art history and the art market.... Read more
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How a Broadway Producer Recreated Peggy Guggenheim’s Groundbreaking ‘Exhibition of 31 Women’ on Its 80th Anniversary
ARTNET May 18, 2023 'I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it,' art doyenne Peggy Guggenheim once remarked. Indeed,... Read more -
Leonor Fini featured in Neo-Romantics at Musée Marmottan Monet
March 8 - June 18, 2023 May 5, 2023 More than one hundred works, from private and public collections, are brought together to (re)discover one of the first post-modern... Read more -
Leonora Carrington. Revelation at Fundación MAPFRE
Feb 11 - May 7, 2023 May 5, 2023 Weinstein Gallery and our private collectors are honored to have loaned to this important exhibition curated by Tere Arcq and... Read more
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Surréalisme au Féminim? at the Musée de Montmarte
March 31 - September 10, 2023 May 5, 2023 The exhibition Surréalisme au Féminin? will be presented from March 31 to September 10, 2023 at the Musée de Montmartre... Read more -
The Love Triangle That Birthed the Guggenheim
CULTURED Mar 28, 2023 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has housed masterpieces of impressionist, modern, and contemporary art in New York since its founding... Read more -
Łempicka exhibition draws record crowds to Kraków National Museum
Radio Poland Mar 21, 2023 An exhibition of work by Polish Art Deco artist Tamara Łempicka drew a record number of visitors to the National... Read more
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The Late Women Artists Garnering Art Market Attention
Artsy Mar 8, 2023 In 2022, we saw incredible strides for women artists across museum exhibitions, galleries, art fairs, and auctions. A prime example... Read more -
Frieze Tate Fund Acquires Works for the National Collection at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2022
Frieze Magazine OCT 2022 Supported by Endeavor, Tate acquires pieces by Romany Eveleigh, Leonor Fini, Lewis Hammond, Rita Keegan, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra... Read more -
Fini Featured in 5 Modern Women Artists to Know
Daily Art Magazine MAR 2022 When we think of modern women artists, certain names immediately come to mind. For instance, anyone can name Frida Kahlo... Read more
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Leonor Fini: I’m Not a Muse, I’m an Artist
Daily Art Magazine SEPT 2022 Read at Daily ARt Magazine Read more -
Records for Under-Recognized Artists Bring Sotheby’s Modern Art Sale to $408.5 M.
ARTnews May 2022 Against the backdrop of a busy week for art in New York headlined by the Frieze art fair, a sale... Read more -
Under a revolutionary, emancipatory spell: Venice exhibition explores Surrealism’s interest in the occult
The Art Newspaper APR 2022 Major show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes works by leading lights of Surrealism, including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning... Read more
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Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity Co- Curator, Gražina Subelytė Interviewed
Christie's MAR 2022 As the exhibition Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity opens in Venice, its curator Gražina Subelytė talks to Christie's about the... Read more -
Who Was Leonora Carrington? The Untold Story of the Mystical Surrealist Whose Visions Shaped the 2022 Venice Biennale
Artnet MAR 2022 The 1985 publication of Whitney Chadwick's Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement radically upended art historians' understanding of surrealism. Though... Read more -
For this Surrealist art couple, love was an alien landscape
The Washington Post FEB 2022 We typically associate romance with images of sunsets on the beach and candlelit dinners. Not alien landscapes. But in 1936,... Read more
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Why Leonora Carrington’s Work Feels So of the Moment
W Magazine FEB 2022 On Wednesday, the Venice Biennale announced the lineup for its 2022 edition, a 'transhistoric exhibition' emphasizing female and gendernonconforming artists... Read more -
With a Majority-Female 2022 Edition, the Venice Biennale Will Make History for Women Artists
ARTnews FEB 2022 Since it started in 1895, the Venice Biennale has been an every-other-year barometer of the global art world. As such,... Read more -
Time capsules, more women and a room for Paula Rego: curator Cecilia Alemani reveals her plans for this year’s Venice Biennale
The Art Newspaper FEB 2022 The artistic director of the 2022 Venice Biennale, Cecilia Alemani, outlined today at a press conference her curatorial plans for... Read more
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Françoise Gilot: ‘It Girl’ at 100
The New York Times JAN 2022 Seated bolt upright on a cream-colored sofa, Françoise Gilot was as grave as an oracle, an impression enhanced by her... Read more -
Enrico Donati Sets Auction Record at $867,000
Artnet Nov 16, 2021 ...The sale set a handful of new artist records, first with Enrico Donati’s Spaziale Fiorito (1948), going for $867,000 over... Read more -
Leonor Fini’s Les Aveugles (1968) finds success at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale
ARTnews Nov 16, 2021 Following the record sale of the Kahlo, lots by female Latin American surrealists also found success on Tuesday. Leonor Fini’s... Read more
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Surrealism Beyond Borders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct 11, 2021 New surrealism exhibition features works by Leonora Carrington, Gerome Kamrowski, Kurt Seligmann, and Remedios Varo. See more about the exhibition Read more -
We Asked 10 Art-World Insiders Which Artists They’re Most Excited to Watch Over the Next Decade. Here’s What They Said
Artnet OCT 2021 ...Brooke Lampley, Sotheby's chairman and worldwide head of sales for global fine art, New York I'm excited about the continued... Read more -
Señor Mustache Mustache and a sinister taco-seller: Leonora Carrington's son on the colourful characters inspiring the next Venice Biennale
The Art Newspaper Jul 2, 2021 The title for next year’s Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, was inspired by Gabriel Weisz Carrington’s memories of the... Read more
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Paying Tribute to Leonora Carrington, 2022 Venice Biennale Takes the Title ‘The Milk of Dreams’
ARTnews Jun 9, 2021 The 59th edition of the Venice Biennale will be titled “The Milk of Dreams,” the exhibition’s artistic director, Cecilia Alemani... Read more -
Francoise Gilot Sets Record at Sotheby's
ARTnews Jun 1, 2021 Among the most successful lots was centenarian French painter Françoise Gilot’s Paloma à la Guitare (1965), a blue-toned portrait of... Read more -
Stella Snead in Phantoms of Surrealism at Whitechapel
Artdaily May 21, 2021 Whitechapel Gallery ’s new archive exhibition, Phantoms of Surrealism, brings together artworks, photographic scrapbooks, press cuttings and original correspondence from... Read more
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Autoportrait au scorpion by Leonor Fini more than doubles the Argentine-Italian artist's world record at auction
The Art Newspaper May 13, 2021 The evening of sales in New York totalled $439.6m, with Basquiat's Versus Medici topping the contemporary art offering at $50.8m... Read more -
Leonor Fini’s Autoportrait au scorpion sets a new auction record at $2,319,000
Sotheby's May 12, 2021 Leonor Fini’s arresting Autoportrait au scorpion, the only self-portrait the artist chose not to sell in her lifetime, set a... Read more -
Alyce Mahon and The Art Newspaper discuss Leonor Fini on the podcast The Week in Art
The Week in Art Jul 10, 2020 Host Ben Luke sits down with esteemed curator and author Alyce Mahon to discuss her new book The Marquis de... Read more
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Leonor Fini, Alice Rahon and Remedios Varo paintings set new auction records
Artsy Jun 30, 2020 The first major test of the upper echelons of the secondary market since COVID-19 shut down most of the world’s... Read more -
Sotheby’s Global Hybrid Online Evening Sale Soars to $363.2 M.
ARTnews Jun 30, 2020 The art market reopened last night with a resounding bang as Sotheby’s sold $363.2 million in modern and contemporary art... Read more -
Sotheby’s Middling Impressionist and Modern Sale Nets $62.8 Million Thanks to a Major Boost From Latin American Treasures
Artnet Jun 30, 2020 Even though sales categories have become increasingly fluid at major auction houses—whether the blending is organic or the result of... Read more
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"We are all Surrealists now": how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
The Art Newspaper Apr 14, 2020 'Safety, under any circumstances, is an illusion.' It’s more than a decade since the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington said those... Read more -
Of Women Who Rule the World
SCHIRN Magazine Apr 12, 2020 In her art, Leonor Fini created a new social order, populated by sphinxes and militant heroines. And was inspired by... Read more -
Top Ten Surrealists: From Dorothea Tanning to Man Ray
AnOther Magazine Mar 5, 2020 Surrealism – that seminal artistic and literary movement led by French poet André Breton – has continued to inspire creative... Read more
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Surrealism Was a Decidedly Feminine Movement. So Why Have So Many of Its Great Women Artists Been Forgotten?
Artnet Feb 18, 2020 Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they... Read more -
Weinstein Gallery lends artwork to the Fantastic Women exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt
Feb 13, 2020 Weinstein Gallery is honored to be a lender to the Fantastic Women exhibition mounted by the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt... Read more -
Wolfgang Paalen Retrospective at the Belvedere Museum Vienna
Oct 4, 2019 He was the only Austrian in the circle of Parisian Surrealists, at Frida Kahlo’s invitation he moved to Mexico, and... Read more
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Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Sep 3, 2019 Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein is a groundbreaking exhibition that explores how modern art was influenced by... Read more -
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein at Amherst College
Mar 28, 2019 View the exhibition website at Amherst.edu Read more -
Leonor Fini's long-awaited catalogue raisonné now available
Feb 21, 2019 Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné Read more
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Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein at BAMPFA
Nov 7, 2018 In the early twentieth century, inspired by modern science such as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, an emerging avant-garde movement... Read more -
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Oct 20, 2018 As Europe lurched toward fascism and America fought in the Second World War, no other artists produced images more powerfully... Read more -
Leonora Carrington: Magic Tales at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO)
Oct 12, 2018 The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey presents Leonora Carrington. Magic Tales , a major retrospective exhibition that explores the... Read more
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Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy, and the Avant-Garde the Barbican
Oct 10, 2018 Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet... Read more -
Modern Couples at the Centre Pompidou-Metz
Apr 28, 2018 Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar, the Delaunay’s, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray and Lee Miller, the Eames’s are... Read more -
We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism at the Museo Picasso Málaga
Oct 10, 2017 We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism presents the work of a group of women artists who, from the... Read more
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Moholy-Nagy: Future Present at LACMA
Feb 12, 2017 The first comprehensive retrospective of the work of László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) in the United States in nearly 50 years, this... Read more -
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Feb 10, 2017 Solomon R. Guggenheim ’s wholehearted embrace of modern art around the age of 68 was not so dissimilar from his... Read more -
Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection and the Gibbes Museum of Art at the Gibbes Museum of Art
Oct 22, 2016 In 1936 the Gibbes Museum of Art presented the first formal exhibition of Solomon R. Guggenheim’s collection of modern art.... Read more
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Moholy-Nagy: Future Present at The Art Institute of Chicago
Sep 29, 2016 Painting, photography, film, sculpture, advertising, product design, theater sets—László Moholy-Nagy (American, born Hungary, 1895–1946) did it all. Future Present, the... Read more -
I had an Interesting French Artist to See Me this Summer at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Jul 1, 2016 This first pairing of the Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen (1905–1959) and Emily Carr (1871–1945) will tell the story of how... Read more -
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
May 27, 2016 László Moholy-Nagy (b. 1895, Borsód, Austria-Hungary; d. 1946, Chicago) believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social... Read more
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Leonora Carrington at the Tate Liverpool
Mar 6, 2015 Leonora Carrington invites you to discover the fantastical creations of the prolific painter and internationally celebrated member of the surrealist... Read more -
Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas at Bildmuseet
Feb 2, 2014 The exhibition Leonor Fini / Pourquoi pas? highlights the diversity of Leonor Fini’s expression and presents paintings, drawings, objects, book... Read more -
Leonora Carrington: The Celtic Surrealist at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Sep 18, 2013 The first major retrospective of Leonora Carrington's work in Ireland, this iconic exhibition is a timely rediscovery of this Surrealist... Read more
