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Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
Lot 403 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE ITALIAN COLLECTOR

Leonor Fini (1908-1996)

La belle Dorothée

Closed6 February 2020

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GBP 6,250

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Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
La belle Dorothée
signed 'Leonor Fini' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
15 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (39 x 29 cm.)

Galerie Bousquet, Paris.
Private collection, France.
Jacques Rouanet, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Tajan, Paris, 28 November 2018, lot 45.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note


"Cependant Dorothée, forte et fière comme le soleil, s’avance dans la rue déserte, seule vivante à cette heure sous l’immense azur, et faisant sur la lumière une tache éclatante et noire."
Charles Baudelaire, La Belle Dorothée

This work is listed as no. 195 in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Leonor Fini by Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, to be published in the Spring of 2020 by Scheidegger & Spiess/Park Books, Zurich.