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This artist depicted a backward-facing woman atop a tapir in Godiva in the Jungle as part of a late-career pivot to sculpture encouraged by Isaac Masri. This artist reaches to grip a phallic cluster of flowers near a tiny skeleton in a portrait set “in the Morning Light.” A portrait by this artist shows a frozen horse in the background behind a romantic partner in a red woolen coat with a mermaid’s tail and a striped sock. (10[1])A sculpture and a painting by this artist inspired by Lewis Carroll (10[1])depict a (10[1])group of crocodiles (10[2])rowing a boat. (10[2])A mural by this (10[1])artist designed for the National Museum of Anthropology is titled The Magical World of the Maya. This painter of Portrait of Max Ernst (-5[1])depicted a galloping (10[1])white horse through a window (10[2])in a self-portrait (10[1])of her (10[1])sitting (-5[1])in a blue chair near a hyena. (-5[2])For 10 points, name this British-born (10[1])surrealist (10[1])who did most of her work in Mexico. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Leonora Carrington [or Mary Leonora Carrington] (The artworks are How Doth the Little Crocodile and Self-Portrait (The Inn of the Dawn-Horse). Max Ernst painted Leonora in the Morning Light.)
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