Remembering Leonor Fini on her birthday 🎂 - and #caturday! 📷 Martine Franck, Paris, 2004 "Her art is the crack in the mirror, the edge of the equation, the dream of tremendous import half-grasped upon awakening, whose meaning dissolves with daylight." - Catherine Styles McLeod
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Leonor Fini by Studio Harcourt, 1962 "She lived every aspect of her life creatively, as a form of investigation in the human psyche & for her, gender & sexuality were the greatest ways to perform those kind of experiments, both on the canvas & in real time." - Lissa Rivera
Leonor Fini Self-Portrait with Scorpion, 1938 "Fini made it difficult to discern where her art stopped and she began. They may well have been one and the same." - Chadd Scott
Dwight Ripley's An Alphabetical Guide to Modern Art, part 2 I murmured once to J. J. Sweeney, "Poor Leonor! Completely Fini." 📷 Leonor Fini by John Phillips, 1957 #caturday
Desmond Morris talks about the "close intimacy" between Leonor Fini & Henri Cartier-Bresson: "He remarked that his body still bore the claw-marks of Leonor Fini. Whether these were real or metaphorical we do not know." 📷 Fini by HCB, 1936
"In her own apartment, she was soon living in a surreal world, surrounded by as many as twenty-three cats. Her favourite breed was the long-haired Persian & they often featured in her paintings." - Desmond Morris 📷 Leonor Fini's cats by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1961 #caturday
In The Lives of the Surrealists preface, Desmond Morris says, "The portrait photos have been selected to show them as they were during the heyday of the movement &, wherever possible, I have avoided the more familiar photographs. 📷 Leonor Fini by Dora Maar, 1936. Good choice!
Leonor Fini at the monastery of Nonza in Corsica. A photograph by Eddy Brofferio from 1967. Spectacular!
Leonor Fini by Francis Apesteguy, 1986 "She had the head of a lioness, mind of a man, bust of a woman, torso of a child, grace of an angel, & discourse of the devil." - Julien Levy
Leonor Fini & Leonora Carrington by Denise Colomb, 1952 "Portrait des artistes posant de façon symétrique" Two great Surrealist artists who finally are getting the attention they deserve.
Brassaï Marie-Laure de Noailles & Léonor Fini, 1946 "I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life." - LF
So glad I caught the recent exhibition in Milan – quite a discovery, hadn't been aware previously.