Art of the 20th Century

 

Art Styles in 20th century Art Map



 

Leonor Fini






 

Leonor Fini


(b Buenos Aires, 30 Aug 1908; d Paris, 18 Jan 1996).

French painter, stage designer and illustrator of Argentine birth. She grew up in Trieste, Italy. Her first contact with art was through visits to European museums and in her uncle’s large library, where she gleaned her earliest knowledge of artists such as the Pre-Raphaelites, Aubrey Beardsley and Gustav Klimt. She had no formal training as an artist. Her first one-woman exhibition took place in Paris in 1935 and resulted in friendships with Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Victor Brauner, bringing her into close contact with the Surrealists; her sense of independence and her dislike of the Surrealists’ authoritarian attitudes kept her, however, from officially joining the movement. Nevertheless her works of the late 1930s and 1940s reflect her interest in Surrealist ideas. She also participated in the major international exhibitions organized by the group.

L'Entracte de l'apotheose


 

Angel of Anatomy
1949


 

Les Carcans


 

Les Deux Cranes


 

Dimanche apres-midi


 

Operation I


 

Situation


 

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