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Property from a Private Collection, California

Leonor Fini

L’Homme aux chouettes (L’Homme aux hiboux)

Lot Closed

November 19, 06:26 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California

Leonor Fini

1908 - 1996

L’Homme aux chouettes (L’Homme aux hiboux)


Signed Leonor Fini (lower right)

Oil on paper mounted on canvas

21 1/2 by 15 in. (54.6 by 38.1 cm)

Framed: 28 1/2 by 22 in. (72.3 by 55.8 cm)

Painted circa 1945.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman.

Tony Duquette, Los Angeles (acquired by 1967)
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Los Angeles (by descent from the above)
Thence by descent
Peter Webb, Leonor Fini—Métamorphoses d’un art, Paris & Arles, 2007, illustrated p. 113
Peter Webb, Leonor Fini—Sphinx—The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 2009, illustrated p. 113
Richard Overstreet & Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2020, no. 341, illustrated p. 100
Cairo, Shepheard Hotel, Isis Room, Leonor Fini, 1951, n.n.
Alexandria, Lehman Gallery, Leonor Fini, 1951, no. 11
Venice, Galleria dell’Ala Napoleonica, Leonor Fini, 1951, no. 9
Los Angeles, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 67-535