Leonor Fini ( BUENOS AIRES  1907 - PARIGI  1996 )

L'amitié, 1958 oil on canvas, cm 60x92 In a carved wood frame (minor defects)   Provenance Valentina Cortese Collection, Milan   Exhibitions "Retrospective" Casino Communal, Knokke-le-Zoute, July-September 1965, n. 42 in catalogue "Leonor Fini" Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 3 June - 30 September, 1983, n. 9 in catalogue Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 17 June - 16 July 1986, n. 11 in catalogue "Leonor Fini: Peintre du Fantastique" Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, 22 November 1997 - 1 March 1998, n. 14 in catalogue "From de Chirico to Leonor Fini. Pittura fantastica in Italia" Museo Revoltella, Trieste, 22 June - 20 October 2002 "Leonor Fini: L'Italienne de Paris" Museo Revoltella, Trieste, 4 July - 27 September 2009   Literature J. Vinchon "Sur une lettre de Jean Genet à Leonor FIni" in Aesculape, Paris, 1954 G. Bataille "Les larmes d'Eros" Paris, Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1961, p. 213 and new edition 1981 Brion "Leonor Fini et son œuvre" 1962 O. Volta "Le Vampire" Paris, Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1962, p. 48 C. Jelenski "Leonor Fini" Milan, 1963 "Le Livre de Leonor Fini", in "La Guilde du Livre", n. 12 Lausanne, December 1975, 1979 L. Fini, J. Alvarez, "Le livre de Leonor Fini", Paris, Editions Mermoud-Clairefontaine, Vilo, 1975 - 1979, pp. 125-126 "Leonor Fini: Das große Bilderbuch" Munich, Verlag Kurt Desch GmbH, 1975. L. Pauwels "Les Chefs d'œuvre de l'érotisme" Paris, Edition Planète, 1976 G. Werner Weber "Die Sphinx, die sich zu verwandeln liebt - Porträt Leonor Fini" in Westermanns Monatshefte - Welt Kunst Cultur, Braunschweig, March 1976, p. 40 J.C. Dedieu "Leonor Fini" Paris, Editions Frederic Birr, 1978 C. Jelenski "Leonor Fini, découverte et masquée" Paris, Le Sphinx - Vilo, 1978 J. Audiberti, Y. Bonnefoy and others "Leonor Fini" Paris, Editions Hervas, 1981 P. Borgue "Leonor Fini ou le Théâtre de l'imaginaire" Paris, Jean Burgos, 1983 LP cover for "Ein Deutsches Requiem" by Johannes Brahms, Munich, 1984 B. Beck "Leonor Fini: Lion, Or et Perfection" in Penthouse, Paris, July 1986, p. 80 T. Villani "Parcours dans l'œuvre de Leonor Fini" Editions Michele Trinckvel and Knokke-le Zoute, 1989 L. Fini "Leonor Fini Peintures" Paris, Editions Michele Trinckvel, 1994 T. Porcella "Leonor Fini, Eros and Psyche" in Cahiers d'Art, Milan, December 1995 - January 1996, p. 50 "Les Sommnambules" cat. of the exhibition at Galerie Dion, Paris, 1997 AA. VV. " Leonor Fini" Paris, Galerie Minsky Edition, 2001 N. Zukerman, "Illustrated Catalog of Leonor Fini Books Currently Available at CFM Gallery", New York, CFM Gallery, 2005 K. Ogata "A New Species which Violates Boundaries. Leonor Fini," Tokyo, Toshindo publishing Co. 2006, p. 165 P. Webb "Leonor Fini Métamorphoses d'un art" Paris, Editions Imprimerie Nationale and Arles, 2007 P. Webb "Sphinx: the Life and Art of Leonor Fini" New York, Jacqueline Decter, the Vendome Press, 2009 W.T. Vollmann "Last Stories and Other Stories" New York, Viking Penguin, 2014, cover R. Overstreet, N. Zukerman "Leonor Fini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings " Zurich, Ed. Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021, Vol. II, p.384 n. 573 ill. in colors; Vol I p.107 detail in colors, p. 163 ill. in colors   The SOPRINTENDENZA ARCHEOLOGICA, BELLE ARTI E PAESAGGIO DELLA CITTÀ DI MILANO (Italian National Heritage) sent us a notice on 28 February at 23,16 p.m. stating the start of the procedure of declaration of particularly important artistic and historical interest.

Estimate € 6,000 - 7,000

Sold € 200,000