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LEONOR FINI (1907-1996)

Lot 17
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1306083
Lot 17 | LEONOR FINI (1907-1996)
Estimate value
£ 450 000 – 650 000
LEONOR FINI (1907-1996)
Rogomelec
signed 'Leonor Fini' (lower right)
oil on canvas
49 ¼ x 23 ¾ in. (125 x 60 cm.)
Painted in 1978




Provenance

Private collection, Paris, by 1983.
Anonymous sale; Marc-Arthur Kohn, Cannes, 4 August 2008, lot 299.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

J.-C. Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, no. 111, p. 125 (illustrated pl. 111).
L. Fini, Rogomelec, Paris, 1979 (illustrated on the cover).
X. Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1979.
G. Weber, 'Im Zauberreich der Malerin und Femme de Lettres' in Zu Besuch bei Leonor Fini, Vis-à-Vis Berliner Literatur & Kunstmagazin, issue no. 12-13, July-August 1984, Berlin, p. 248.
T. Kaleya, Leonor Fini, Chats d'atelier, Paris, 1988.
Contemporary Great Masters, ed., Leonor Fini, Tokyo, 1993.
L. Fini, Leonor Fini Peintures, Paris, 1994.
J. Godard, Leonor Fini ou les métamorphoses d'une oeuvre, Paris, 1996, pp. 103 & 105 (illustrated p. 104).
R. Overstreet & N. Zukerman, Leonor Fini: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 891, p. 465 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, La Galerie des Arts Plastiques, Leonor Fini, November - December 1978.
Ostend, Casino-Kursaal, Leonor Fini, June - August 1980, no. 59.
Montauban, Musée Ingres, Leonor Fini, April 1981, no. 3.
Ferrara, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Leonor Fini, June - September 1983, no. 27, pp. 40 & 100 (illustrated p. 101).
Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Leonor Fini: Retrospective, November 1985 - May 1986, no. 30; this exhibition later travelled to Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda; Kitakyushu, Municipal Art Museum and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art.
Knokke-le-Zoutte, Gallery Guy Pieters, Leonor Fini, May 1988, no. 6 (illustrated).
Cannes, La Malmaison, Leonor Fini: Portraits, February - May 2002, p. 60 (illustrated).
Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Leonor Fini: L'Italienne de Paris, July - September 2009.
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Leonor Fini: Une Grande Curiosité, December 2009 - January 2010, p. 10 (illustrated p. 44).
New York, CFM Gallery, Leonor Fini Paintings 1931-1987, March - April 2010.
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Convulsive Beauty – Then and Now: Leonor Fini & Miss Van, February - March 2018.
New York, Museum of Sex, Leonor Fini, Theatre of Desire: 1930-1990, September 2018 - March 2019.
Paris, Galerie Minsky, Leonor Fini - Stanislao Lepri: Méphisto, June - September 2019.
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