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Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time
Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museum
TL;DR
- Leonora Carrington's painting "Villa Pilar," created in 1940 during her stay at a psychiatric hospital in Santander, Spain, will be publicly displayed for the first time.
- The painting depicts the psychiatric hospital as a symbolic underworld and was created with encouragement from her psychiatrist, Dr. Luis Morales.
- "Villa Pilar" will be exhibited at the Freud museum in London before traveling to Faro Santander in Spain.
- Carrington, a prominent surrealist artist, later settled in Mexico and became a celebrated figure, known for her resistance to being defined by her gender.
- The painting was rediscovered by the Faro Santander team and is on loan from Dr. Morales' family.