View full screen - View 1 of Lot 125. Les Mutantes.

Property of a Lady

Leonor Fini

Les Mutantes

Estimate

350,000 - 500,000 EUR

Lot Details

Lire en français
Lire en français

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