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I first discovered Leonora Carrington’s work in Mexico a few years ago. But this week I finally got to see the first major exhibition in France devoted to her work (at the Luxembourg Museum right now).

Carrington fled - from England to France, then New York and Mexico — dragging her surrealist imagination across three continents.

She fell in love with famed Surrealist Artist Max Ernst, befriended Dalí, Picasso and Duchamp.

She escaped the Second World War, was raped by soldiers, was institutionalized against her own will.

These experiences seeped into her art — an iconography of floating creatures, shifting territories, and unstable landscapes. It’s art the leaves you into altered states, at the border of enchanted and disturbed.

More Paris sensory suggestions in the newsletter this week.