Surreal Friends
The Artists
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Leonora Carrington (b.1917)British-born artist, surrealist painter and novelist who emigrated from Europe in 1941, to settle in Mexico City a year later where she continues to live and work today.
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Remedios Varo (1908 - 1963)Spanish-born Mexican surrealist painter who fled to Paris during the Spanish Civil War, was forced into exile following the Nazi occupation of France and moved to Mexico City in 1941.
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Kati Horna (1912 - 2000)Born to Hungarian parents in Budapest, Horna emigrated to Paris in 1933, worked as a photojournalist across Europe during the Spanish Civil War and settled in Mexico in 1939.