Lot 18
  • 18

Leonor Fini

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Description

  • Leonor Fini
  • Rogomelec
  • Signed Leonor Fini (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 49 1/2 by 23 3/4 in.
  • 125.7 by 60.3 cm

Provenance

Collection of the artist, Paris

Exhibited

Montauban, Musée Ingres, Rencontres d'art, Leonor Fini, 1981, no. 3
Comune di Ferrara, Galleria civica d’Arte moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Leonor Fini, 1983, illustrated in the catalogue
Cannes, La Malmaison, Leonor Fini: Portraits, 2002, illustrated in the catalogue
Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Leonor Fini: L'Italienne de Paris, 2009, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Jean-Claude Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, p. 111
Leonor Fini, Rogomelec, Paris, 1979, illustrated on the cover
Xaviere Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1979, p. 77 

Condition

Work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined. There is a layer of varnish on the surface which is somewhat difficult to read through with UV light, but no inpainting is apparent.
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