Photo By Gail

During World War II, after the imprisonment of then partner, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington fled France and sought asylum in Spain. There, she experienced a series of psychological crises. Her family placed her in a sanatorium against her will, where she was subjected to severe treatments. Carrington eventually moved to New York, where Andre Breton encouraged you to write about her experiences in the Surrealist  journal VVV.

Shortly thereafter she made Green Tea (1942), which is possibly a meditation on her confinement. At left there is a figure, often interpreted as the artist, clad in a restrictive cowhide-like straight jacket. A white horse, another one of Carrington’s autobiographical symbols, is chained to a tree nearby.

Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.