Technique: Original Hand Signed and numbered Lithograph in Colours on simili-Japan
Paper Paper size: 52 x 72.5 cm. / 20.5 x 28.5 in.
Additional Information: This lithograph in colours is hand signed in ink by the artist “Leonor Fini” at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil “64/75” at the lower left margin. It was printed in a limited edition of 75 impressions.
Condition: Good condition. Signature very slightly faded. Pale staining around the image. Heavy folds in the upper left corner. Remnants of hinging tape along the upper sheet edge, verso.
LEONOR FINI 1908-1996
Buenos Aires 1908-1996 Paris
Title: The Foreigners / Les Etrangers, 1976
Technique: Portfolio with 36 Original Hand Signed Etchings in colours on Rives vellum and Japan paper
Portfolio size: 41.5 x 32 cm / 16.3 x 12.6 in
Additional Information: This portfolio consists of 36 hand signed etchings and text.
It has two parts:
The Book: The text “Les Etrangers” was written by Juan Bautista Pineiro and translated to French by Francoise-Marie Rosset.
The book is illustrated by 18 original Etchings by Leonor Fini that each one is hand signed in pencil by the artist.
Some of the etchings are printed on full sheets and some are printed with text.
The Suite: In addition to the book there is a separate suite of the 18 etchings when each one is printed on a separate loose full sheet of Japan paper.
Each one of these 18 etchings is also hand signed in pencil by the artist and also stamp with Leonor Fini dry stamp (face of a cat).
The portfolio was printed in 1976 in a limited edition of only 186 examplares but from them only 50 were printed on vellum de Rives paper with an extra suite on Japan paper, like this one.
The portfolio is numbered in the justification page “No.105”.
It is also stamped and hand signed in the justification page by Mr. Maurice Masseut from the Huisser de Justice in France.
The etchings were printed in the printing house of Atelier Rigal in France.
The cover of the portfolio is also specially illustrated by a design of Leonor Fini.
Condition: Excellent condition.
LEONOR FINI 1908-1996
Buenos Aires 1908-1996 Paris
Title: The Tragedy of Orpheus / Die Tragodie Des Orpheus, 1982
Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Portfolio with 10 Original Etchings in colours on vellum paper
Paper Size: 53 x 37.5 cm / 20.8 x 14.8 in
Plate Size: 34.5 x 26 cm / 13.1 x 10.2 in
(The first etching of the 10 has a different plate size: 14 x 10 cm / 5.5 x 4 in)
Additional Information: This portfolio includes 10 original etchings by Leonor Fini and text and poems by Rudolf Hagelstange.
It was printed in 1982 in a limited edition of 250 examplares by Daneil Moret, Paris.
The portfolio is covered with a brown fabric cover.
It includes except of the 47 pages of text and poems by Rudolf Hagelstange 10 Original hand signed color Etchings by Leonor Fini.
All the Etchings are Hand Signed and Numbered on a full separate pages without any text.
The Etchings are Hand Signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right margin “Leoner Fini” and Numbered in pencil “143/250”.
The justification page of the portfolio is hand signed in pencil by Leoner Fini and by Rudolf Hagelstange.
The Etchings are printed on loose pages separate from the book so they can be individaully framed.
Published by edition List, Munchen in 1982.
Condition: Excellent condition.
LEONOR FINI 1908 – 1996
Title: Book Destruction
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Color Etching with margins on Japon paper.
Paper Size: 41 x 25 cm / 16.1 x 9.8 in
Image Size: 14 x 9 cm / 5.5 x 3.5 in.
Additional Information: This work is Hand signed in pencil by the artist “Leonor Fini” in the lower right corner,
as well as hand Numbered in pencil “12/38” at the lower left margin.
The Etching was printed in a limited edition of only 38 hand signed and numbered impressions on Japan paper.
Condition: Very Good Condition condition. Some foxing stains in the margins.
LEONOR FINI
Buenos Aires 1908 – 1996 Paris
Title : The Dance, ca. 1965
Technique: Sepia Ink Drawing on Paper
Size : 40.5 x 33 cm. / 12.6 x 15.9 in.
Additional Information : This work by Leonor Fini is hand signed in the lower right part “Léonor Fini”
It is probably a study for one of the illustrations Fini created for the publication “Aveuglément Orphée” by Jacques Izoard.
Provenance: Photo-certificate by Richard Overstreet from the 4th of February 2005 confirming the authenticity of this work.
Condition: Very good condition.
LEONOR FINI Buenos Aires 1908 – 1996 Paris
Title : La Conversation.
Technique : Original Gouache and Ink Painting on heavy grey Paper
Size : 48 x 35 cm. / 18.9 x 13.8 in.
Additional Information: This beautiful gouache and ink painting is signed in the lower right part “Léonor Fini”.
Provenance: Photo-certificate by Richard Overstreet from the 4th of February 2005 confirming the authenticity of this work.
Condition: Very good condition.
LEONOR FINI
Buenos Aires 1908 – 1996 Paris
Girl´s Face
Original Hand Signed and Numbered Color Lithograph
Title : Girl´s Face
Technique : Original Color Lithograph on Vellum paper.
Paper Size : 65 X 48,5 cm / 25.6 X 19.1 in.
Additional Information : This work is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist “Leonor Fini” in the lower right,
as well as Hand Numbered in pencil “46/80”.
The Color Lithograph was printed in a limited edition of just 80 impressions.
Condition : Foxing stains all over the paper, except of the lower part. Discoloration of the margins and upper part of the image. see the images.
Leonor Fini (August 30, 1908 — January 18, 1996, Paris) was an Argentine surrealist painter. She was born in Buenos Aires to an Italian mother and an Argentinian father. Her mother left her father before Leonor´s first birthday. She took the child to her home in Trieste, Italy, where Fini was disguised as a boy whenever she left her house for the next five years in order to foil kidnap attempts by her father. After leaving Trieste at the age of 17 to paint a family´s portraits in Milano (where she had her first painting exhibition) she relocated to Paris in either 1931 or 1932. There, she became acquainted with, among many others,Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Picasso,André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Salvador Dalí. It has been said about her that she is the only artist to paint women without apology. Many of her paintings feature strong, beautiful women (many times resembling herself) in ceremonial or provocative situations. Men are often portrayed as lithe figures who are under the protection of her females. The sphinx and cats play major parts in her paintings, as does the theme of ´the double´. She was equally adept at etching, drawing, watercolor and oil painting. She lived with many cats; up to a total of 23 at one time. The illness of one of her cats could send her into a deep depression. (Except from Wikipedia)
Leonor Fini (August 30, 1908 — January 18, 1996, Paris) was an Argentine surrealist painter. She was born in Buenos Aires to an Italian mother and an Argentinian father. Her mother left her father before Leonor´s first birthday. She took the child to her home in Trieste, Italy, where Fini was disguised as a boy whenever she left her house for the next five years in order to foil kidnap attempts by her father. After leaving Trieste at the age of 17 to paint a family´s portraits in Milano (where she had her first painting exhibition) she relocated to Paris in either 1931 or 1932. There, she became acquainted with, among many others,Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Picasso,André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Salvador Dalí. It has been said about her that she is the only artist to paint women without apology. Many of her paintings feature strong, beautiful women (many times resembling herself) in ceremonial or provocative situations. Men are often portrayed as lithe figures who are under the protection of her females. The sphinx and cats play major parts in her paintings, as does the theme of ´the double´. She was equally adept at etching, drawing, watercolor and oil painting. She lived with many cats; up to a total of 23 at one time. The illness of one of her cats could send her into a deep depression. (Except from Wikipedia)