Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)

Surrealist artists Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst were living together in the South of France when he was arrested by the Nazis at the outbreak of World War II. He manged to escape and flee to America with the help of friends. Carrington fled to Spain, where she suffered a breakdown; eventually she made her way to Lisbon and then to Mexico. She married the Hungarian photographer Emericko Weisz and had two children, and became a successful painter and writer.

Do not confuse with painter Dora de Houghton Carrington (1893-1932).