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“Carrington built her menagerie out of medieval colour — moss, plum, and aged gold set as carefully as a tarot card.”
Leonora Carrington
Painter · Surrealism · 1917–2011
British-Mexican Surrealist whose alchemical scenes worked in moss green, plum, and aged-gold tempera.
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“Carrington built her menagerie out of medieval colour — moss, plum, and aged gold set as carefully as a tarot card.”
British-Mexican Surrealist whose alchemical scenes worked in moss green, plum, and aged-gold tempera.