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Leonor Fini by d’Arturo Ghergo, Rome 1944-1945
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Gala and Salvador Dali, Leonor Fini and Andre Peiryre de Mandiargues, Archachon, 1940
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Leonor Fini, Vesper Express (1966)
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Leonor Fini in her studio, c 1961
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Leonor Fini, Somnambule I (1995)
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Leonor Fini, They Love to Dress Up (1948)
Portrait of Margot Fonteyn and Joy Brown
All images © the Leonor Fini Estate
The Surrealist It-girl
Leonor Fini: The Sphinx
When she arrived in 1930s Paris draped in a scarlet Cardinal’s gown, teenager Leonor Fini caused an overnight sensation. The Italian-Argentine painter always refused to sign the surrealist manifesto, but her dreamlike paintings and the company she kept, including Salvador Dali and Max Ernst, put her firmly in that camp. A close friend of Picasso and Cartier-Bresson (his photograph of her nude in a swimming pool fetched a fortune at auction recently) she later worked with Elsa Schiaperelli, and famously illustrated Anne Desclos’s controversial erotic novel The Story of O. Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini is published by Vendome.
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