Estimate € 3,500 - 4,000
Sold € 190,000
Auction: 02 March 2022 at 15:00
Le Retour des absents, 1965 oil on canvas, cm 81x116 In frame (minor defects) Provenance Valentina Cortese Collection, Milan Exhibitions Galatea Gallery, Turin, 5-26 May, 1966, n. 7 Alexander Iolas, Paris, New York, Geneva, Milan, Rome and Madrid, December 1966 - January 1968, n. 8 in catalogue Hanover Gallery, London, 11 May - 10 June, 1967, n. 6 in catalogue "Leonor Fini" Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 3 June - 30 September, 1983, no. 58 in catalogue "Leonor Fini: L'Italienne de Paris" Museo Revoltella, Trieste, 4 July - 27 September 2009 Literature "Leonor Fini" in Mizue, Tokyo, July 1968 C. Jelenski "Leonor Fini" Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre and Clairefontaine, 1968 and later editions L. Fini, J. Alvarez "Le Livre de Leonor Fini" Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre and Clairefontaine 1975, 1979, p. 145 "Leonor Fini: Das große Bilderbuch" Munich, Verlag Kurt Desch GmbH, 1975 "Leonor Fini Contemporary Great Masters" series, no. 8, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1993 M. Masau Dan, V. Strukelj "Leonor Fini" Florence, Giunti Editore, 2011 R. Overstreet, N. Zukerman "Leonor Fini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings" Zurich, Ed. Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021, Vol. II, p.412 n. 694 ill. in colors
Estimate € 3,500 - 4,000