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Leonor Fini

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