Live Auction 9779Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
Lot 543

Leonor Fini (1908-1996)

L'ombre Respirante

Closed30 January 2013

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GBP 2,250

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Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
L'ombre Respirante
signed 'Leonor Fini' (in the weave lower right); inscribed 'L'OMBRE RESPIRANTE" AUTEUR: LEONOR FINI ATELIER DE TISSAGE: Ph CHLEO No 3/3' (on a hand-written label to the underside) and inscribed 'E/E' (in the weave underneath)
hand-woven tapestry
59½ x 167¾ in. (151.2 x 426.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 October, 2002, lot 776.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work relates to the 1962 oil painting of the same title (C. Jelenski, Leonor Fini, p. 113).