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Inv. n°: CL1587

Dans la tour (Autoportrait avec Constantin Jelenski)

Signed 'Leonor Fini' (lower right)

90.8 x 64.8 cm
1952
Oil on canvas

Provenance

  • Ambassador Georges Gorse, paris and Algiers, 01/01/1968
  • Anon. sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, March 27, 1973 12:00 AM, lot. 31
  • Anon. sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, June 24, 1980 12:00 AM, lot 33
  • Private collection, Monaco
  • Christie’s sale, Paris, November 28, 2012 12:00 AM, lot 77
  • Ex Private Collection
  • Acquired at Christie's 20th century evening sale, New York, 01/01/2025

Publications

  • C. Jeleński, Leonor Fini: Peinture, Lausanne, 01/01/1968, p. 161
  • P. Cabanne, "Une visionnaire nommé Leonor Fini", Lectures pour tous, August 1, 1969 12:00 AM, p. 23
  • M.-F. Fouchet, "Eros intelligent", Galerie de l’art contemporain, May 1, 1970
  • J.-C.Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 01/01/1978, p. 21
  • A. Biro and R. Passeron, Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs, Fribourg, 01/01/1982, p. 169
  • P. Borgue, Leonor Fini ou le théâtre de l'imaginaire: Mythes et symboles de l'univers Finien, Paris, 01/01/1983, pp. 23, 64 and 293
  • K. Ogata, Leonor Fini: A New Species Which Violates Boundaries, Tokyo, 01/01/2006, pp. 77, 79 and 248
  • P. Webb, Leonor Fini: Métamorphoses d'un art, Paris, 01/01/2007, p. 175
  • P. Webb, Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 01/01/2009, pp. 173-174 and 193
  • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Surrealism and the Dream, Madrid, 01/01/2013, pp. 191 and 340
  • Bildmuseet, Leonor Fini / Pourquoi Pas?, Umea, 01/01/2014, pp. 79 and 173
  • Museo Picasso, Somos plenamente libres: Las mujeres artistas y el surrealismo, Malaga, 01/01/2017, p. 222
  • Museum of Sex, Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire, 1930-1990, New York, 01/01/2018, p. 41
  • Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, 01/01/2020, Invalid Date, p. 408
  • R. Overstreet and N. Zukerman, Leonor Fini: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Zurich, 01/01/2021, p. 360

Exhibitions

  • Surrealism and the Dream, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, September 1, 2013 — January 1, 2014
  • Leonor Fini / Pourquoi Pas?, Bildmusee, Umea, Sweden, January 1, 2014 — May 1, 2014
  • Leonor Fini: Réalisme irréel, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, USA, September 1, 2015 — December 1, 2015
  • Somos plenamente libres: Las mujeres artistas y el surrealismo, San Francisco, Museo Picasso, Malaga, October 1, 2017 — January 1, 2018
  • Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire, 1930-1990, Museum of Sex, New York, USA, September 1, 2018 — March 1, 2019
  • Hommage à Leonor Fini, Galerie Patrick Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1, 2019 — July 1, 2019
  • Frantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, February 1, 2020 — November 1, 2020
  • Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, February 1, 2020 — November 1, 2020
  • I am Leonor Fini, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, February 1, 2025 — July 1, 2025

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