Leonor Fini L'Œil du poisson

Property of a Lady
Leonor Fini
1908 - 1996
L'Œil du poisson

signed Leonor Fini (lower right)
oil on canvas
116,3 x 73 cm; 45¾ x 28¾ in.
Executed in 1971.

Provenance:
Galerie Charpentier, Paris

Hôtel des Ventes, Enghien-les-Bains, 18 November 1979, lot 134

Private collection, France (by 1983)

Bonhams, New York, 4 November 2015, lot 134

Artcurial, Paris, 7 June 2016, lot 180

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature:
Xavière Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1973, n.p., illustrated in colour

Constantin Jelenski et al., Leonor Fini. Découverte et Masquée, Paris, 1978

Jacques Audiberti, Yves Bonnefoy, et. al., Leonor Fini, Paris, 1981, n.p., illustrated in colour (with inverted dimensions)

Leonor Fini, Leonor Fini, Peintures, Paris, 1994, p. 87, illustrated in colour (dated 1978)

Mare Kandre, La femme et le docteur Dreuf, Paris, 1996, detail illustrated in colour on the cover

Jocelyne Godard, Leonor Fini ou les métamorphoses d'une œuvre, Paris, 1996, p. 67, n.p. illustrated

Esther Selsdon, Leonor Fini, London, 1999

Annette Shandler Levitt, The Genres and Genders of Surrealism, Londres, 2000, p. 96, illustrated

Peter Webb, Leonor Fini Métamorphoses d'un art, Paris, 2007, p. 246

Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zürich, 2021, no. 783, pp. 436-437, illustrated in colour