The art of Leonor Fini, 1907–1996
May 4, 2008
Painter, illustrator and novelist Leonor Fini has been mentioned here before in a post about women Surrealist artists but her wonderful paintings deserve renewed attention. There’s an official site and galleries here (follow the links at the bottom of the page) and here but her work is so profuse and varied there could easily stand to be more.
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• The art of Michel Henricot
• Surrealist women
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#1 posted by Nathalie
May 5th, 2008
I think she’s probably my favourite 20th century French artist.
I grew up amongst her drawings and one of the very first paintings I got as an adult was one of hers (not a painting actually- I am not that rich – but a lithography).
#2 posted by pe-jota
May 5th, 2008
A great Argentinian artist, I have a post prepared about her for the next week.
#3 posted by John
May 5th, 2008
Lucky you having an original print, Nathalie!
I used to know her work mainly from books on the Surrealists. That’s a shame because it tends to make her seem a minor artist. I saw a couple of her oil paintings at a Brighton exhibition dedicated to Edward James’s life and art collection in 1998. Would be nice to have a decent monograph.
#4 posted by Nathalie
May 6th, 2008
There are some around (although maybe not recent). My parents had an excellent one in 2 volumes (but it must have been printed in the sixties or the beginning of the seventies at the latest.
Probably an item for second hand book stores.
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