Léonor FINI - Portraits of young girls - original signed drawing
Portraits of young girls
Original drawing, ink on paper signed, 34.5 x 25.5 cm on sight.
Six female faces surround a young woman in costume.
Léonor Fini's world is one of sensuality and role-playing, where costumes play a major role. The artist herself was known for participating in costume parties. The grand costume balls of the years 1946-1953, where her appearances "as a royal owl, a gray feline or a queen of hell" were spectacular, made her a media personality, earning her, among other things, the cover of the American magazine This Week in December 1948, photographed wearing an owl mask.
Dimensions :
- Height : 34,5 cm
- Width : 25,5 cm
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.
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