The home of British-Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington in Mexico City will be converted into a museum, its management announced Monday, May 24. Born in England in 1917, the painter took refuge in Mexico in 1942.
“This space bears witness to the daily life of the Weisz Carrington family, who lived there for over sixty years. We have a catalog of more than 8,600 objects », explained Alejandra Osorio, head of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and in charge of the project.
Forty-five sculptures by the artist
The painter’s son, Pablo Weisz Carrington, sold the house to the university for $ 500,000 and donated several of his works, valued at $ 3 million (€ 2.45 million), ten years after the death of his mother, against the promise that the place would be turned into a museum.
The idea is to keep rooms such as the kitchen or the workshop intact, in order to “Stay closest to the artist’s daily life”, specifies the curator. The date of the opening of the museum, which will have 45 sculptures by the artist in addition to hundreds of objects that belonged to him, will depend on the evolution of the pandemic.
