Lot 16
  • 16

Leonor Fini

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Description

  • Leonor Fini
  • La Léçon d'anatomie
  • Signed Leonor Fini (lower right); signed Leonor Fini and titled "La Léçon d'anatomie" (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 38 1/4 by 51 1/8 in.
  • 97.1 by 129.9 cm

Provenance

Galerie Saqqarah, Gstaad
Wenk Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, London, March 27, 1985, lot 221)
McInnes Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Germany
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
Acquired from the above

Literature

Constantin Jelenski, Leonor Fini, Lausanne, 1972, illustrated in color p. 153
José Alvarez, ed., Le livre de Leonor Fini, Paris, 1975, illustrated p. 237
Jean-Claude Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, illustrated in color p. 48

Condition


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