LEONOR FINI, (1907-1996)
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signed 'Leonor Fini' (lower right)
gouache, pen and ink on paper
45.4 x 37.7cm (17 7/8 x 14 13/16in).
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Mr. Richard Overstreet.
Provenance
Anon. sale, Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG, Bern, 10 May 2019, lot 722.
Private collection, Madrid (acquired at the above sale).
Literature
J-C. Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Fruits de la passion, Trente-Deux Variations sur un Theme de Leonor Fini, Paris, 1980 (illustrated p. 31).
The present work is an original illustration for a plate in the 1980 portfolio Fruits de la passion by Jean-Claude Dedieu, published in a limited number. It was Leonor Fini's final major portfolio published in book form and the thirty-two drawings within offered the viewer highly stylised choreographies that were greater in detail than earlier in her oeuvre. The scholar Peter Webb writes in Sphinx, The Life and Art of Leonor Fini that, 'the drawings in this album display an assured elegance in their examinations of sexual behaviour, even when the images are at their most violent'.
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Duel oratoire
Duel oratoire
signed 'Leonor Fini' (lower right)
gouache, pen and ink on paper
45.4 x 37.7cm (17 7/8 x 14 13/16in).
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Mr. Richard Overstreet.
Provenance
Anon. sale, Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG, Bern, 10 May 2019, lot 722.
Private collection, Madrid (acquired at the above sale).
Literature
J-C. Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Fruits de la passion, Trente-Deux Variations sur un Theme de Leonor Fini, Paris, 1980 (illustrated p. 31).
The present work is an original illustration for a plate in the 1980 portfolio Fruits de la passion by Jean-Claude Dedieu, published in a limited number. It was Leonor Fini's final major portfolio published in book form and the thirty-two drawings within offered the viewer highly stylised choreographies that were greater in detail than earlier in her oeuvre. The scholar Peter Webb writes in Sphinx, The Life and Art of Leonor Fini that, 'the drawings in this album display an assured elegance in their examinations of sexual behaviour, even when the images are at their most violent'.
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