Leonora Carrington’s surrealist ‘masterpiece’ sets major auction record at Sotheby's
Setting a record for any British-born female artist at auction, a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) drew a lengthy bidding battle at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, taking the artist into a new league commercially.
Carrington, who was born in Lancashire but spent much for her life in Mexico where she became a natu…