Lithographs
Fenetre (Window) by Leonor Fini
- Item Number
- 146
- Estimated Value
- 1800 USD
- Opening Bid
- 300 USD
Item Description
Leonor Fini’s “Fenetre” (Window) is matted and framed, measuring 15 ½”h x 11 ¾”w. This etching was produced using drypoint on Archive paper. It is signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 275. A certificate of Authenticity accompanies this piece.
Item Special Note
Leonor Fini's art offers a woman's take on surrealism, which large dealt with male fantasies, by offering a female view of the female body and of erotic pleasures. Fini was one of the more international figures of the Surrealist movement. She was born in Argentina, raised in her mother's home town of Trieste, Italy, and spent most of her artistic life in Paris, where she had her first one-person show in 1932. Although she was friends with many of the leading surrealists (including Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Victor Brauner), she never formally joined the movement though she did include her works in several of their International Surrealist Exhibitions. After the Second World War, she had many one-person shows in Europe and America (plus a major retrospective in Japan in 1972). Fini's works are to be found in many important collections of modern art. Her obituary in The London Times stressed her physical beauty, her erotic art, and her legions of lovers, whose names "read like a roll call of the literary and artistic talents of that brilliant age."
Donated By:
MR BERNARD BOEMKER
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