Born: 6-Apr-1917
Birthplace: Chorley, Lancashire, England

Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Painter, Author, Sculptor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Last living Surrealist

Father: Harold Carrington (textile magnate)
Mother: Maurie Moorhead (Irish)
Brother: Pat
Brother: Gerard
Brother: Arthur
Boyfriend: Max Ernst (cohabited 1937-40)
Husband: Renato Leduc (Mexican diplomat, m. 1941 for political asylum in Mexico)
Husband: Csizi "Chiqui" Weisz (Hungarian photographer, m. 1946)
Son: Gabriel Weisz (teacher)
Son: Pablo Weisz-Carrington (artist, b. 1947)

    Surrealists (1937-)
    Irish Ancestry
    Raped Madrid, Spain (1940)
    Nervous Breakdown Madrid, Spain (1940)
    Institutionalized Santander, Spain (1940-41)
    Naturalized Mexican Citizen 1942

Author of books:
La Maison de la Peur (1938, illustrated by Max Ernst)
La Dame ovale (1939, stories)
Down Below (1943, memoir)
Une chemise de nuit de flanelle (1951, play)
La Invencion del Mole (1960s, play)
The Hearing Trumpet (1974, novel)
The Stone Door (1976, novel)
The Seventh Horse and Other Tales (1988, stories)

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