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Fini, Composition, Fruits de la Passion, XXe siècle (after)
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Héliogravure on vélin de Rives pur chiffon paper, manufactured by Les papeteries de Rives, Voiron, France. Paper Size: 16.93 x 14.17 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Fruits de la passion, trente-deux variations sur un thème de Leonor Fini, 1980. Published by Éditions des Maîtres du XXe siècle, Paris; printed by Ateliers of Raoul Zuliani S.A., Montreux, April 21, 1980. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album was completed to print on April 21, 1980 on the Ateliers de Jean Genoud S.A. in Lausanne. The original works were shot in the Ateliers of Raoul Zuliani S.A. in Montreux, according to the photolithographique process. The typography is by René H. Bittel in Geneva. The vélin Rives pure chiffon paper was manufactured by the Papeteries de rives in Voiron, France. The binding was entrusted to the reliure Mayer et Soutter in Lausanne. This edition of "Fruits de la Passion" includes: CCL head examples numbered from I/CCL to CCL/CCL, signed by the artist and accompanied by an engraving; XXX head examples numbered H.C. I/XXX to XXX/XXX, signed by the artist and accompanied by an engraving, reserved for the publisher's collaborators; XXX numbered head examples E.A. I/XXX to XXX/XXX, signed by the artist and accompanied by an engraving, reserved for the artist; MMMMDCXC examples numbered from I to MMMMDCXC. LEONOR FINI (1907-1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini had no formal artistic training, but grew up surrounded by the Renaissance and Mannerist styles of Italy. Her first major exhibition was in 1936 at New York's Julian Levy Gallery. Though Fini is part of the pre-war generation of Parisian artists often overlooked in favour of male contemporaries, she was very important in the Surrealist movement. Fini never officially joined the movement, but she did show her work alongside Surrealist artists. She was included in Peggy Guggenheim's 1943 show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. Fini worked for Elsa Schiaparelli in the late thirties and early forties and designed the bottle for the perfume "Shocking", basing the shape on Mae West's torso. Fini networked into theatre circles when she started taking on costume design projects in the 1930s as a source of extra income. She also illustrated books and some of her best-known works in this area are her drawings for a 1944 edition of the Marquis de Sade's ''Juliette.'' Between 1944 and 1972, Fini’s main work was in costume design for film, theatre, ballet and opera including, famously, the first ballet performed by Roland Petit's Ballet de Paris, Les Demoiselles de la nuit, featuring a young Margot Fonteyn in 1948. In 1949, Frederick Ashton choreographed a ballet she had conceptualized, Le Rêve de Leonor ("Leonor's Dream"), with music by Benjamin Britten, and Fini designed the hybrid human-animal costumes for it as well. In 1959, Fini made a fairy tale-inspired painting called Les Sorcières for the Mexican actress, María Félix. She also designed the costumes for two films: Renato Castellani's Romeo and Juliet (1954) and John Huston's A Walk with Love and Death (1968). In London, she exhibited paintings at the Kaplan gallery in 1960 and at the Hanover Gallery in 1967. A 1986 retrospective at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris featured over 260 of her works in a variety of media including watercolours and drawings, theatre/costume designs, paintings and masks. In the 1970s, she wrote three novels: Rogomelec, Moumour; Contes pour enfants velu and Oneiropompe. Many of Fini's paintings featured women in positions of power or in very sexualised contexts. Madonna used the imagery of one of the exhibits, Le Bout du Monde, in her video, "Bedtime Story" in 1994. In the spring of 1987, Fini had an exhibition at London's Editions Graphique's gallery. The San Francisco Modern Museum of Art also featured her work in an exhibition entitled "Women, Surrealism, and Self-representation" in 1999. Fini's work often included sphinxes, werewolves, and witches. Most of the characters in her art were female or androgynous. She painted portraits of Jean Genet, Anna Magnani, Jacques Audiberti, Alida Valli, Jean Schlumberger and Suzanne Flon as well as many other celebrities and wealthy visitors to Paris. Her friends included Jean Cocteau, Giorgio de Chirico, and Alberto Moravia, Fabrizio Clerici and most of the other artists and writers inhabiting or visiting Paris. Fini illustrated about 50 books, including ''Satyricon'' and works by Jean Genet and Charles Baudelaire. She illustrated many works of classic authors and poets, including Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire and Shakespeare, as well as texts by new writers. Leonor Fini illustrated books by Lise Deharme, including Le Poids d’un oiseau in 1955 and Oh! Violette ou la Politesse des Végétaux in 1969. She was very generous with her illustrations and donated many drawings to writers to help them get published. She is, perhaps, best known for her graphic illustrations for the sexually explicit Histoire d'O. In 2021, Leonor Fini’s painting, Autoportrait au scorpion, sold for $2,319,000 USD at Sotheby's New York, setting a world record for the artist.

Creation Year:

1980

Dimensions:

Height: 16.93 in (43.01 cm)Width: 14.17 in (36 cm)

Medium:

Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Surrealist

After:

Leonor Fini (1908 - 1996, French)

Period:

1980-1989

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Auburn Hills, MI

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1465216559192

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