From February 18, 2026, the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris will celebrate Leonora Carrington, a 20th-century Surrealist artist who long remained in the shadows of the French art scene. The exhibition brings together a significant collection of works and documents, aiming to showcase the breadth of a career that extends beyond her European years, encompassing several decades of creative output.
An exhibition of unprecedented scale in France, featuring many rarely seen works
Presented as the first French exhibition of this scale dedicated to Carrington, it brings together a vast body of work and notably highlights rarely seen pieces, while not being an exhaustive retrospective. The exhibition also reflects a broader movement of rediscovery: the artist, long relegated to a secondary role in the narrative of Surrealism, has in recent years benefited from renewed attention, as evidenced by the rise in his value on the art market.
A surreal, long-term trajectory, beyond the Ernst years
The exhibition reminds us that Carrington produced and wrote well after her period associated with Max Ernst, and that her work spans more than half a century. Visitors are invited to follow an artist whose imagination is nourished by myths, metamorphoses, and narratives, and whose recognition was long confined to places other than France, before her return to prominence in Paris.
