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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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

The two artists pose together; they're both wearing elaborate feathered masks.
aug 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 10 2

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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

Two incredibly elaborate feathered costumes: Bardot in white & Fini in black, yellow & orange. Unidentified photographer.
aug 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 9 2 • view
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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social

My two treasured Leonor Fini lithographs

Framed lithograph of two haunting women's faces by Argentinian Surrealist artist Leonor Fini BOTD Framed lithograph of Surrealist figure that appears to be superimposed on a wall reflected in the glazed frame. Artist is Argentinian Leonor Fini BOTD
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 3 1 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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

Fini looks over her very large puppet-like self-portrait sculpture.
aug 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 4 1 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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?

The two pose in front of a painting, almost completely covered in feathered headdresses.
aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 5 1 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

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.

Fini in a striped top, standing in front of a sculpture.
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Les jambes de Léonor Fini 📷 Dora Maar, c. 1934 A companion to the Cartier-Bresson photograph of Fini's legs earlier in this thread.

A negative of Fini's legs.
aug 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Léonor Fini Aurore Paris, musée d'Art Moderne

Coloured lithograph of a woman's face, in shades of orange & brown.
aug 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 3 0 • view