Leonor Fini Cartier Bresson. (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.) feuille : Custody battles often involved fini and her mother in sudden flights and disguises.
Leonor fini,italy 1933, printed later. (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.) feuille : Bottle design by fini, 1937.
Artist, Libertine, Provocateur (30 August 1907 To 18 January 1996)
Life and work born in buenos aires, argentina, she was raised in trieste, italy. Custody battles often involved fini and her mother in sudden flights and disguises. Her mother was italian and her father was an argentinean of italian descent.
For The First Six Or Seven Years Of Her Life, She Was Disguised As A Boy Whenever She Left Her Home To Avoid Kidnap Attempts By Her Father.
She moved to milan at the age of 17, and then to paris, in either 1931 or 1932. Leonor fini had many and fruitful contacts with photographers from the 1930s onwards. 14 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.
When She Was 17, She Had A Painting Exhibited In A Gallery In Trieste And Received A.
Spirited away to trieste by her mother before she was a year old; Many characterize fini as a surrealist but in fact she never subscribed to that movement. If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in moma’s collection, or an image of a moma publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact art resource (publication in north.
Leonor Fini’s Legacy Is Immense As She Did So Much In Her Lifetime Personally, Professionally And Artistically.
Leonor fini argentine/italian painter, stage designer and book illustrator leonor fini was an extraordinary talent. She even appears in many of cartier bresson’s photographs. Trois faunesses was one of most commented upon works in this exhibition and was purchased by mandiargues.
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Born in buenos aires, argentina, she was raised in trieste, italy, her mother's home city. Leonor fini was an argentine surrealist painter. 14 ⅛ by 9 ½ in.