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Leonor Fini
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Description
- Leonor Fini
- Armoire anthropomorphe
- Oil on wooden armoire
- 86 1/2 by 57 by 12 1/2 in.
- 219.71 by 144.8 by 31.8 cm
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Drouin, 1939
London, Victoria and Albert Museum; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum & Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, 2007-09, illustrated in the catalogue
Umea, Sweden, Bildmuseet, Leonor Fini/Pourqoui Pas?, 2014, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Victoria and Albert Museum; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum & Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, 2007-09, illustrated in the catalogue
Umea, Sweden, Bildmuseet, Leonor Fini/Pourqoui Pas?, 2014, illustrated in the catalogue
Literature
Richard Martin, Fashion and Surrealism (exhibition catalogue), New York, Fashion Institute of Technology, 1987-88, pp. 218-19
Leonor Fini: Peintre du Fantastique (exhibition catalogue), Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany, 1997-98, p. 54
Ghislaine Wood, The Surreal Body: Fetish and Fashion, London, 2007, pp. 47 & 48
Peter Webb, Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 2009, illustrated p. 65
Leonor Fini: Peintre du Fantastique (exhibition catalogue), Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany, 1997-98, p. 54
Ghislaine Wood, The Surreal Body: Fetish and Fashion, London, 2007, pp. 47 & 48
Peter Webb, Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 2009, illustrated p. 65
Condition
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