Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentinian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author.
“Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she was raised in Trieste, Italy, her mother’s home city. While in Trieste, she was expelled from various schools for being rebellious. Her parents divorced when she was a year old. Custody battles often involved Fini and her mother in sudden flights and disguises. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on both eyes. After recovering, she decided to become an artist.
She moved to Milan at the age of 17, and then to Paris, in either 1931 or 1932. There, she became acquainted with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico, who inspired 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. She traveled Europe by car with Mandiargues and Cartier-Bresson where she was photographed nude in a swimming pool by Cartier-Bresson. The photograph of Fini sold in 2007 for $305,000 - the highest price paid at auction for one of his works to that date.“
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Katsukawa Shunsho, “The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen (left), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura (right), in the Joruri ‘Sono Omokage Matsu ni Sakura (Vestiges of Pine and Cherry),’ from Part Two of the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga (Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Soga), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1783” Woodblock print
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Eustachy Kossakowski. Maria Jarema’s, Studio in Cracow, 1962.
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