Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini

Leonor FINI was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1908. At a very young age, she moved with her mother to her family in Italy. There, she had a privileged childhood and adolescence in a bourgeois and highly cultured environment.
However, she left this world early to settle in Paris, where she began painting in the mid-1930s.

Her artistic influences stem from the painting of the Quattrocento and the Mannerists of the 16th century. A rich and demanding technique was always present in her work. But her subjects, on the other hand, are more readily associated with Surrealism. She even participated in the exhibition dedicated to them in London in 1936 at the Burlington Gallery.

Leonor FINI - Original Lithograph: The Show Her career also included numerous book illustrations (Poe, Baudelaire, Cocteau, among others) and a long and lasting collaboration with theater and opera, allowing her to express her taste for the stage and spectacle.

She passed away in Paris, her adopted city, in 1996, after a rich career where the search for herself in each of her subjects spoke to the eternal confrontation for a painter with the strange mirror that is the canvas.

(c) Natacha PELLETIER for PASSION ESTAMPES

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