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
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"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
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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!
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Leonor Fini at the monastery of Nonza in Corsica. A photograph by Eddy Brofferio from 1967. Spectacular!
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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
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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.
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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
aug 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 10 2 • view
The temptation is to turn my Bluesky feed into a 24/7 display of Leonor Fini photos. Here are Brigitte Bardot & Leonor Fini on their way to the Bal Surréaliste at Château de Ferrières in Paris, 1972
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Leonor Fini with Le Rêve de Leonor 📷 André Ostier, 1949 "Without ever dissociating her life from her art, she crossed time & place with remarkable artistic autonomy, transposing her avant-garde ideals onto the canvas with force & determination." - Laurianne Simonin
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More feathers & intense gazes: another Denise Colomb shot of two great surrealist artists, Leonor Fini & Leonora Carrington, from 1952. Is that a Fini painting behind them?
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Portrait de Léonor Fini 📷 Dora Maar, c. 1934 Maar was such a fine portrait photographer. Without masks and feathers, we see here, perhaps, the real Fini.
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