Leonora Carrington: last of the great Surrealists

Joanna Moorhead | The Telegraph | 6th April 2015

Carrington was presented at Buckingham Palace as a debutante but eloped to Paris with Max Ernst and subsequently escaped the Nazi’s to Mexico City. Her significant artistic achievements have received little recognition in England. This affectionate biographic essay by her journalist cousin describes the background to a retrospective which has just opened at the Tate Liverpool.