Leonor Fini

LEONOR FINI (Buenos Aires, 1907 - Paris, 1996).
"Costume design for Il Credulo by Cimarosa".
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Signed and inscribed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 40,5 x 30,5 cm; 67,5 x 57,5 cm (frame).

Leonor Fini was always attracted to writing and worked for theater, ballet and cinema. In fact, she illustrated such honorable works as Shakespeare's "The Tempest", Sade's "Juliet" or Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil", and did costume tests for Cimarosa's "Il Credulo", among others.

Leonor Fini was a multidisciplinary artist framed within surrealism, self-taught in Paris in the thirties. Multitalented and fearless in her thinking, Fini was 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.