
Property of a Lady
L'Œil du poisson
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Lady
Leonor Fini
1908 - 1996
L'Œil du poisson
signed Leonor Fini (lower right)
oil on canvas
116,3 x 73 cm; 45¾ x 28¾ in.
Executed in 1971.
Galerie Charpentier, Paris
Hôtel des Ventes, Enghien-les-Bains, 18 November 1979, lot 134
Private collection, France (by 1983)
Bonhams, New York, 4 November 2015, lot 134
Artcurial, Paris, 7 June 2016, lot 180
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Verrière, Leonor Fini, 1971, no. 25
Tokyo, Seibu Museum; Osaka, Hanshin Museum; Fukuoka, Fukuoka Museum; Hiroshima, Hiroshima Museum and Kanazawa, Kanazawa Museum, Retrospective, 1972-73, no. 42, n.p., illustrated (with inverted dimensions)
Amsterdam, Galerie Forni, 1976
Sint-Martens-Latem, Musée d'Art Moderne de Latem, 1978, no. 9
Ostend, Casino Kursaal, 1980, no. 18
Ferrara, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Leonor Fini, 1983, no. 66, p. 150, illustrated (with inverted dimensions)
Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda; Kitakyushu Municipal Art Museum and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Retrospective, 1985-86, no. 14
Xavière Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1973, n.p., illustrated in colour
Constantin Jelenski et al., Leonor Fini. Découverte et Masquée, Paris, 1978
Jacques Audiberti, Yves Bonnefoy, et. al., Leonor Fini, Paris, 1981, n.p., illustrated in colour (with inverted dimensions)
Leonor Fini, Leonor Fini, Peintures, Paris, 1994, p. 87, illustrated in colour (dated 1978)
Mare Kandre, La femme et le docteur Dreuf, Paris, 1996, detail illustrated in colour on the cover
Jocelyne Godard, Leonor Fini ou les métamorphoses d'une œuvre, Paris, 1996, p. 67, n.p. illustrated
Esther Selsdon, Leonor Fini, London, 1999
Annette Shandler Levitt, The Genres and Genders of Surrealism, Londres, 2000, p. 96, illustrated
Peter Webb, Leonor Fini Métamorphoses d'un art, Paris, 2007, p. 246
Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zürich, 2021, no. 783, pp. 436-437, illustrated in colour