VISAGE BLEU by LEONOR FINI

LEONOR FINI (Argentina, 1907 - 1996 France)

Major listed Surrealist painter, set and costume designer, book illustrator and graphic artist.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 of an Italian mother and Argentine father whom she never knew, Leonor Fini was surrounded throughout her youth in Trieste, Italy by a highly cultivated, cosmopolitan milieu. Self-taught, Fini began to paint as a young child and possessed of a fiercely independent nature, left her family first in 1927 to spend a year in Milan and again in 1931 to establish her career as a painter in Paris. Although she never formally joined the Surrealist Group under Andre Breton, Fini became friends with many of them, including, Dali, Ernst, Bataille, Cartier-Bresson and Man Ray, among others. Her circle included poets, writers, prima ballerinas, opera stars and the like. She painted portraits of Jean Genet, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, Princess Francesca Ruspoli, Leonora Carrington, Margot Fonteyn, Joy Willams Brown, Maria Felix, Suzanne Flon, Maria Casares, and Anna Magnani, among others. Her self-portraits are legendary.

This gorgeous watercolor is a fine example of the artist's portraits and is significantly larger than most that either come to auction or are available in galleries. It is an original work which has been published as a lithograph by the same name and as a double image, using this face as one of two in the rare, oversized lithograph.

Hand signed by Leonor Fini in the presence of this dealer.

Certificate of Authenticity from Richard Overstreet accompanies this watercolor.

Beautifully archivally framed.


The newest biography, LEONOR FINI - METAMORPHOSES D' UN ART, by PeterWebb has just been released world-wide.

Please contact the dealer at sabbatique@aol.com for further information on Leonor Fini and her work.

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