Leonor Fini (1907-1996) - Le Amanti

Rare and limited etching from Leonor Fini named Le Amanti.

Hand numbered with pencil 52/150 and hand signed with pencil from artist on the right side.

Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women.
Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Malvina Braun Dubich (born in Trieste, with German, Slavic and Venetian ancestry) and Herminio Fini (with ancestry from Benevento, Italy). Herminio was a handsome and very wealthy man, but also tyrannical with extreme religious views. Within 18 months of Leonor's birth, Malvina fled back to Trieste with the child. Leonor was raised there and was expelled from various schools for being rebellious. As a Catholic, Herminio refused to give Malvina a divorce, which was only granted to her in 1919 through an Italian court. Custody battles often forced Fini and her mother to take sudden flight and wear disguises. In her early teens, an eye disease forced Fini to wear bandages on both eyes. After recovering, she decided to become an artist.

She moved to Milan at the age of 17 and a gallery in Trieste exhibited one of her paintings that year. She thereafter received a commission to paint portraits from dignitaries in Milan where she had her first one-woman show at the Galerie Barbaroux in 1929. She moved to Paris in 1931 when she was 24. There, she became acquainted with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico, whose metaphysical style of art influenced much of her work. She also came to know Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Picasso, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Salvador Dalí. Fini traveled Europe by car with Mandiargues and Cartier-Bresson where Cartier-Bresson took a photograph, one of his best known, of her naked in a pool with a shaved pubis. The photograph of Fini sold in 2007 for $305,000 – the highest price paid at auction for one of Cartier-Bresson's works to that date.

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