Description
Hardcover. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. First edition (3,000 printed). Quarto, ~9 ¾” w x 12” h, 148pp. Beige cloth, brown dust jacket with painting, illustrated flyleaves. Jacket intact with moderate scuffing and edge wear; light chipping at head and tail. Text block shows slight age toning but otherwise VG. BW and color illus with more than 60 examples of the work of English-born Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington, most in full color. Texts in Spanish and English by Mexican novelist and art critic Juan García Ponce and Carrington herself. Includes an artist chronology. Scarce.
“Therefore because of the marvellous capacity of the Painting Machine that I entered the Mysteries of Creative Art when, in fact, I was a born Jezzamathician.” -Leonora Carrington, pp. 35-6