| How Doth the Little Crocodile | |
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| Spanish: Cómo hace el pequeño cocodrilo | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Cocodrilo_LeonoraCarrington.jpg) The sculpture in 2017 | |
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| Artist | Leonora Carrington |
| Year | c. 1998 |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Movement | Surrealism |
| Subject | "How Doth the Little Crocodile" |
| Dimensions | 4.8 m × 8.5 m (16 ft × 28 ft) |
| Weight | 5 tonnes (4.9 long tons; 5.5 short tons) |
| Location | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 19°25′45″N 99°09′44″W / 19.42930°N 99.16227°W | |
How Doth the Little Crocodile (Spanish: Cómo hace el pequeño cocodrilo)[a] is both a painting and an outdoor bronze sculpture by British-born Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
Carrington first painted How Doth the Little Crocodile in 1998.[1] The statue was cast around that time and in 2000, it was donated to the government of Mexico City, who installed it in a pond at Chapultepec Park, in the Miguel Hidalgo borough. The sculpture was relocated in 2006 to Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, in the Cuauhtémoc borough, in downtown Mexico City.
Both artworks were inspired by and named after the 1865 poem "How Doth the Little Crocodile", written by Lewis Carroll for his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- ^ a b Abelleyra, Angélica. "Leonora Carrington: La rebeldía como sello" [Leonora Carrington: Rebellion as seal] (in Spanish). Museo de Mujeres Artistas. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
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