Hector PASCUAL - Man with cat, oil on canvas
Man with cat (presumed portrait of Hector Biancotti, member of the Académie Française)
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm
Bears on the back of the chassis the stamp of the succession of the artist
Excellent condition
Biography: Hector Pascual is particularly known for his work as a costume creator for theatre and opera costumes. He was the friend of Leonor Fini and especially Yves St-Laurent with whom he was very close. He was his assistant for ten years for the creation of costumes in plays by Cocteau like The Two-Headed Eagle or Dear Liar, or for the ballets of Roland Petit. In 1981, Saint Laurent names him curator of the collectors of his couture house, a position he occupied until the creator's death.
Léonor Fini :
Born in Buenos Aires in 1908, Léonor Fini is a Surrealist painter, set designer and author from italian origin.
In 1937, she leaved Italy for Paris and met André Breton and the Surrealists. Inspired by their theories, she experimented the « automatic drawing ». She beccame a friend of Georges Bataille, Victor Brauner, Paul Éluard and Max Ernst without integrating the group.
Her first monographic exhibiition took place in New York, in 1939.
Leonor Fini realized many portraits (Jacques Audiberti, Jean Genet, Anna Magnani), costumes for theater, ballet and opera. She also illustrated texts by Marcel Aymé (La Vouivre), Edgar Poe, The Marquis de Sade (History of Juliette, 1945).
Many poets, writers, painters and critics dedicated her monographs, essays or poems as Jean Cocteau, Giorgio De Chirico, Éluard, Ernst, Alberto Moravia... She died in 1996.
-
Create an alert
Please subscribe to our free alert service to be notified when a similar item is available on the website.
This item is not available. Please click on « View the catalog » to see similar items available.
