Which 1938 Leonora Carrington painting shows a white horse and a female figure in a dreamlike interior?

Leonora Carrington’s painting showing a white horse and a female figure in a dreamlike interior is Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse).

Carrington painted the work in 1937–38, when she was in her early twenties. It shows her seated beside a hyena, with a white rocking horse on the wall and a white horse visible through the window. The animals and the artist’s direct gaze create a private symbolic world rather than a conventional portrait.

The title refers to “Inn of the Dawn Horse,” a name Carrington used for herself. The work reflects her interest in folklore, magic, animals, and transformation. It also predates her later life in Mexico, where she became a major figure in modern art and literature.

The painting is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Frida Kahlo because both artists are associated with autobiographical, fantastical imagery, but Carrington created this portrait herself.