Casa Estudio Leonora Carrington
Entrance | |
| Location | Colonia Roma, Mexico City |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 19°25′4.84″N 99°9′22.97″W / 19.4180111°N 99.1563806°W |
| Type | Biographical art studio |
| Director | Alejandra Osorio |
| Owner | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana |
| Public transit access | Álvaro Obregón bus station |
| Website | casaleonoracarrington.uam.mx |
The Casa Estudio Leonora Carrington, also known as Casona Leonora Carrington, and formerly intended as Casa Museo Leonora Carrington, was the home of British surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington. It is found at Chihuahua Street 194, colonia Roma Norte, in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.
The house was expected to open to the public as a museum in 2022.[1][2] In 2024 it was announced by its university owners that the house would not become a museum.[3]
History
Leonora Carrington lived in the house for more than 60 years, from 1948 until her death in 2011 (aged 94).[4] It is a three-story mansion in Chihuahua Street in colonia Roma Norte, Mexico City. There, she painted many of her best-known works, wrote her novel The Hearing Trumpet and also raised her two sons with her husband Emerico "Chiki" Weisz, a Hungarian photographer.[5][4]
In 2017, the house, along with more than 8,600 objects, was purchased by Mexico City’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) from Carrington's son with the stipulation that it would become a museum.[6] Starting in 2018, at £3m restoration began on the house to enable it to receive visitors and display more than 8,000 of the artist's objects.[7][4]
In October 2024, it was announced by the university that the house would not become a museum and would instead become a "documentation centre" for "teaching and research".[8]
Gallery
See also
- Museo Leonora Carrington
- Frida Kahlo Museum
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- List of historic house museums in Mexico
References
- ^ "Casa de la artista Leonora Carrington en la Ciudad de México abrirá sus puertas como museo". El Economista (in Spanish). 24 May 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ "El rincón secreto de Leonora Carrington se abre al público". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 28 May 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Leonora Carrington's Mexico City Home Will No Longer Open as a Museum; Alex Greenberger. ArtNews, 23 October 2024. [1]
- ^ a b c Moorhead, Joanna (31 May 2021). "Is that a surrealist masterpiece by the draining board? Inside Leonora Carrington's sculpture-filled home". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
- ^ "Convierten la casa de la artista Leonora Carrington en un museo íntimo". La Nación (in Spanish). 31 May 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Casa de la artista Leonora Carrington en la Ciudad de México abrirá sus puertas como museo". El Economista (in Spanish). 24 May 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ Osorio, Camila (12 June 2021). "El refugio surrealista de Leonora Carrington en México". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Leonora Carrington's Mexico City Home Will No Longer Open as a Museum; Alex Greenberger. ArtNews, 23 October 2024. [2]