
Portrait de Alida Valli I
Auction Closed
May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Leonor Fini
1907 - 1996
Portrait de Alida Valli I
oil on canvas
8 by 6 ⅞ in.
20.3 by 17.5 cm.
Executed in 1947-48.
Alida Valli, Italy (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, Italy (acquired by descent from the above)
Tommaso Calabro, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Los Angeles, Mid-Twentieth Century Art Gallery, Leonor Fini, 1948
Milan, Tommaso Calabro, Leonor Fini. Italian Fury as Dreamed by Francesco Vezzoli, 2022
Arthur Millier, “Four ‘One-Man’ Shows of Rare Quality Open: Leonor Fini, Sueo Serisawa, Joe Jonas, Francis de Erdely Exhibit Notable Paintings, Drawings,” Los Angeles Times, 18 April 1948, part III, p. 4, illustrated
Peter Webb, Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 2009, pp. 143 and 160
Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 375, p. 335, illustrated
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