
Property of a Lady
Les Mutantes
Estimate
350,000 - 500,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Lady
Leonor Fini
1908 - 1996
Les Mutantes
signed Leonor Fini (lower right)
oil on canvas
97,5 x 147 cm; 38⅜ x 57⅞ in.
Executed in 1971.
C. de Poorterer, Brussels (by 1975)
Private collection, Paris (by 1997)
Private collection, Belgium (by 1999)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 November 2003, lot 248
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Verrière, Leonor Fini, 1971, no. 26
Ostend, Casino Kursaal, Leonor Fini, 1980, no. 19
Xavière Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1973, illustrated
Leonor Fini and José Alvarez, Le Livre de Leonor Fini: Peintures, dessins, écrits, notes de Leonor Fini, Paris, 1975, no. 149, p. 234; detail illustrated; p. 149, n.p. illustrated
Werner Weber, "Die Sphinx, die sich zu verwandeln liebt - Porträt Leonor Fini" in Westermanns Monatshefte, Braunschweig, 1976, p. 47
Leonor Fini, Miroir des chats, Paris, 1977
Jean-Claude Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, no. 66 and 67, pp. 66-67, illustrated in colour (with inverted dimensions)
Constantin Jelenski et al., Leonor Fini. Découverte et Masquée, Paris, 1978
Constantin Jelenski, Leonor Fini, Peinture, Paris, 1980, p. 165, illustrated in colour
Jacques Audiberti, Yves Bonnefoy, et al., Leonor Fini, Paris, 1981, n.p., illustrated
Pierre Borgue, Leonor Fini ou le théâtre de l'Imaginaire, mythes et symboles de l'univers finien, Paris, 1983, p. 104, illustrated
Alain Demouzon, Mystère au musée du chat, Paris, 1984, p. 98, illustrated in colour
Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf E. Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg, eds., Surrealism and Women, London, 1991, fig. 10, p. 178, illustrated
Tommaso Porcella, "LF Eros e Psiche" in Cahiers d'Art, Milan, 1995-96, p. 57
Jocelyne Godard, Leonor Fini ou les métamorphoses d'une œuvre, Paris, 1996, n.p., illustrated
Delia Gaze, ed., Dictionary of Women Artists, vol. I, Londres, 1997, p. 522, illustrated
Georgiana Colvile, Scandaleusement d'elles - Trente-Quatre Femmes Surréalistes, Paris, 1999, p. 105, illustrated
Neil Zukerman, Illustrated Catalogue of Leonor Fini Books at CFM Gallery, New York, 2005, p. 89, illustrated in colour
Ogata, A new Species, 2006, p. 12
Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zürich, 2021, no. 785, p. 437; p. 436, illustrated in colour