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C'est Fini: An Important Private Collection of Surrealist Art

Leonor Fini

L'homme aux masques or Portrait de Enrique Álvarez Félix

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

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C'est Fini: An Important Private Collection of Surrealist Art

Leonor Fini

1908 - 1996

L'homme aux masques or Portrait de Enrique Álvarez Félix


signed Leonor Fini (lower right)

oil on canvas

61.3 by 38.2cm., 24⅛ by 15in.

Framed: 83.3 by 60cm., 32¾ by 23⅝in.

Painted in 1949.

Sale: Christie's, London, 25th June 2003, lot 210
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner 
Venice, Palazzo Reale, Galleria dell'Ala Napoleonica, Leonor Fini, 1951, no. 20
Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Leonor Fini: L'Italienne de Paris, 2009
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Leonor Fini—Une Grande Curiosité, 2009-10
New York, CFM Gallery, Leonor Fini: Paintings 1931-1987, 2010
Umeå, Bildmuseet, Leonor Fini. Pourquoi pas?, 2014
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, The Tears of Eros: Moesman, Surrealism and the Sexes, 2020
Reno, Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Leonor Fini. Not A Muse, An Artist, 2021
Richard Overstreet & Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 406, illustrated in colour p. 342