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Léonor Fini, Lithograph SIGNED #2288880

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Léonor Fini, Lithograph SIGNED #2288880
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A highly representative work by Fini, framed and ready to hang.</em></td>
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Léonor Fini (1908-1996)

The work of artist Léonor Fini resists classification. Although often associated with Surrealism, it is highly personal. It presents a mysterious and evocative world dominated by women.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1908 to parents of Italian, Spanish, and Argentinean descent, Léonor Fini was was reared in Trieste, Italy. A largely self-taught artist, as a teenager she studied Renaissance and Mannerist painting in European museums and anatomy at the Trieste morgue.

In her visits to the morgue at the age of thirteen or so, she became intensely interested in the phenomena of life and death, decay and regeneration that were to influence her art profoundly. In her paintings, images of skulls and bones mark the tension between the transitory and the eternal.

Fini's work may be seen as a response to the patriarchal assumptions of Surrealism. Fini places herself, or other women, at the center of her paintings as images of female power and autonomy. Her works touch on issues of matriarchy, lesbianism, and androgyny. She typically combines carefully rendered reality and an invented theatrical space dominated by fantasy.

Fini frequently includes in her paintings her personal totem, the cat; and she often depicts women who have magical--often sexual--powers.

Fini's first solo exhibition was at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York in 1939. During World War II, she lived in Monte Carlo and Rome and continued to work as an illustrator, theater designer, and painter, ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:unknown</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Léonor Fini, Lithograph SIGNED</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Woodstock, Illinois</td></tr>
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