Extraordinary Leonora Carrington painting to enter Scotland`s national art collection
(Artdaily.org)

A mysterious and powerful portrait by the celebrated Surrealist painter, sculptor and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) has become the first work by the artist to enter the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, it was announced today. Carrington painted Portrait of Max Ernst in about 1939, two years after she left a privileged but stifling life in England to join the inner circle of the Surrealist movement in Paris. Carrington’s painting depicts the German artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), who became her lover in 1937, and with whom she escaped to France that same year. The painting is one of Carrington’s most famous works, and has an extraordinary history. By December 1942, following a series of upheavals caused by the outbreak of war, Carrington had become estranged from Ernst and was on her way to Mexico, where she spent much of the rest of her life. She and Ernst met in New York, and as a parting g