Mexico City, 1943 · 3 artists

Surrealists who refused to be the muse

Breton's circle wanted women as apparitions. These three left Europe, took the dream logic with them, and built whole cosmologies with their own internal engineering.

Modern · Britain / Mexico

Leonora Carrington

1917–2011 · Alchemical surrealist of hybrid beasts

SurrealismMythologyHybrid figures

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Modern · Spain / Mexico

Remedios Varo

1908–1963 · Surrealism as a precise engineering drawing

SurrealismAlchemyFine detail