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LEONOR FINI (1907-1996)

Lot 57
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 57 | LEONOR FINI (1907-1996)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
LEONOR FINI (1907-1996)
Dans la tour (Autoportrait avec Constantin Jeleński)
signed 'Leonor Fini' (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 ¾ x 25 ¼ in. (91 x 64.3 cm.)
Painted in 1952




Provenance

Anon. sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 27 March 1973, lot 31.
Anon. sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 24 June 1980, lot 33.
Ambassador Georges Gorse, Paris and Algiers.
Private collection, Monaco (acquired from the above); sale, Christie’s, Paris, 28 November 2012, lot 77.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

C. Jeleński, Leonor Fini: Peinture, Lausanne, 1968, p. 161 (illustrated in color, pl. 67).
P. Cabanne, "Une visionnaire nommé Leonor Fini" in Lectures pour tous, August 1969, p. 23, no. 187.
M.-F. Fouchet, "Eros intelligent" in Galerie de l’art contemporain, May 1970.
J.-C.Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, p. 21 (illustrated in color).
A. Biro and R. Passeron, eds., Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs, Fribourg, 1982, p. 169 (illustrated).
P. Borgue, Leonor Fini ou le théâtre de l'imaginaire: Mythes et symboles de l'univers Finien, Paris, 1983, pp. 23, 64 and 293, no. 14 (illustrated, p. 64).
K. Ogata, Leonor Fini: A New Species Which Violates Boundaries, Tokyo, 2006, pp. 77, 79 and 248 (illustrated, p. 79).
P. Webb, Leonor Fini: Métamorphoses d'un art, Paris, 2007, p. 175 (illustrated in color).
P. Webb, Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 2009, pp. 173-174 and 193 (illustrated in color, p. 175).
R. Overstreet and N. Zukerman, Leonor Fini: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Zurich, 2021, vol. II, p. 360, no. 473 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Surrealism and the Dream, October 2013-January 2014, pp. 191 and 340, no. 69 (illustrated in color, pp. 191 and 340).
Umea, Bildmuseet, Leonor Fini / Pourquoi Pas?, January-May 2014, pp. 79 and 173 (illustrated in color, p. 79; illustrated again in situ, p. 180).
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Leonor Fini: Réalisme irréel, September-December 2015.
Malaga, Museo Picasso, Somos plenamente libres: Las mujeres artistas y el surrealismo, October 2017-January 2018, p. 222, no. 86 (illustrated in color, p. 223).
New York, Museum of Sex, Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire, 1930-1990, September 2018-March 2019, p. 41 (illustrated).
Geneva, Galerie Patrick Cramer, Hommage à Leonor Fini, May-July 2019.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, February-November 2020, p. 408 (illustrated in color, p. 57).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, I am Leonor Fini, February-July 2025.
Artist:Leonor Fini (1907 - 1996)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Surrealism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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