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Article: The woman with mustard feet
- Article from:
- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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Leonora Carrington was the toast of the Surrealists. Then she was
forced to escape the Nazis, a Spanish mental asylum and her nanny,
before fleeing to Mexico... Ahead of two exhibitions of her work,
the 92-year-old reflects on a life less ordinary
In the biggest metropolis in the Western world, amid drug wars,
earthquakes and swine flu, 92-year-old Leonora Carrington opens the
biscuit tin resting on her oilskin Liberty tablecloth. "Do you want
more tea?" England's last living Surrealist asks politely. Bronze
statues, child-size casts of Carrington's frighteningly powerful
imagination, lurk throughout her Mexico City townhouse. A masked pig
peers out from under a hat stand. Something half ...