Leonor Fini
L'homme aux masques or Portrait de Enrique Álvarez Félix
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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.
The canvas is not lined. The canvas is slightly undulating. Inspection under UV light reveals a thick milky varnish through which UV light cannot fully penetrate, but does reveal a few small spots of retouching to the composition with some associated pigment loss. There are some tiny scattered pigment losses in places, the most notable of which include: a few above the figure's head, two diagonal lines to the left of the figure, one to the figure's proper left hand and another above the figure's foot, some of these correspond to what appear to be surface scratches. There are fine lines of craquelure throughout. There is some frame abrasion to the edges. This work is in overall fairly good condition.
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