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DORA CARRINGTON WORKS ON PAPER AT DAVIS & LANGDALE COMPANY, INC

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NEW YORK CITY — Davis & Langdale Company will present the exhibition, “Dora Carrington (1893–1932),” on view, May 12–June 1.

“Dora Carrington” will include about 40 works on paper, consisting of both mature works and of sheets from three sketchbooks Carrington used as a child. The early watercolors and drawings are unusually deft, and very like some of her adult work. They show a strong resemblance to such pictures as the 1922 “Kitchen Scene at Tidmarsh Mill” and to the countless quick drawings with which Carrington illustrated her letters.

In 1978, Sir John Rothenstein, for nearly 30 years director of the Tate Gallery, London, called Carrington “the most neglected serious painter of her time.” In 1995, there was both a major retrospective of her work at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, as well as an award-winning film starring Emma Thompson as Carrington and Jonathan Pryce as Lytton Strachey.

The pictures in this exhibition belonged to Alix Sarngant-Florence Strachey, in whose family they have remained until now. They have never before been shown, and constitute a significant addition to Carrington’s small oeuvre. Alix Strachey, Lytton Strachey’s sister-in-law, was Carrington’s close friend.

The gallery is at 231 East 60th Street. For more information, 212-838-0333.