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Ahead of the pack: Leonora Carrington's tarot card art – in pictures

Leonora Carrington’s life was full of twists and turns. She was a celebrated surrealist artist, Max Ernst’s lover and mental-asylum inmate in the 1930s, and then a women’s rights campaigner in 1970s Mexico. With so much drama in her life, it’s not surprising she looked for belief systems. The tarot fascinated her so much she created her own surrealist pack. They lay undiscovered in her archive until a 2018 retrospective in Mexico City and are now gathered in a new book, The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (Fulgur Books). “Leonora’s rendition mirrored her own creative individuality,” says her son, artist Gabriel Weisz Carrington. “It is endowed with a subliminal iconography, a window opening to a performance of the marvellous.”

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