Leonor Fini

LEONOR FINI (Buenos Aires, 1907 - Paris, 1996).
"Cat dancer", c. 1956.
Ink on paper.
Damaged in the frame.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 28 x 18 cm; 47 x 41 cm (frame).
Leonor Fini was a multidisciplinary artist framed within the surrealism, formed in a self-taught way in the Paris of the thirties. A friend of Cocteau, De Chirico and Moravia, in addition to painting she was a set and costume designer for the theater, and in the seventies she wrote three novels. She was also an outstanding illustrator, especially of works by Poe, Aymé and the Marquis de Sade. Her work has been recognized through major retrospectives, including those held in Belgium (1965), Tokyo (1972) and Paris (1986), and is currently represented in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villa in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome and other collections in Europe, Japan and the United States.