Histrionic, chameleonic and magnetically seductive: these adjectives deftly capture the essence of Leonor Fini, whose life played out as an endless masquerade of roles and fantasies. Amid the recent ...

Photograph of Leonor Fini in Arcachon, 1940. Featured in the exhibition “Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire, 1930–1990,” on view at the Museum of Sex, in New York, through March 2019. Leonor Fini, The ...

Although not as well known as contemporaries like Dalí and Ernst, Fini was part of every major Surrealist exhibition. And her personal life was... 'She was a pure creator.' The art world rediscovers ...

PARIS — Though once fêted as a glamorous Parisian queen of the libertine, bohemian art world, Leonor Fini (1907–96) has been sliding ever since toward obscurity. Although her eccentric manner of ...

Well, one month of 2023 already gone. I started the year with a New Year’s Resolution to write a bit more about art outside of the automatically must-cover big shows or controversies. That’s ...

Leonor Fini's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 2,515,000 USD for paintings, and 140,200 USD for works on papers. In the past 12 months, their paintings ...

The Argentine-Italian artist Leonor Fini, who showed with the Surrealists in the 1930s to 40s, is due to have her first major US survey at what might seem to be an unlikely venue for an art historical ...

The artist and designer Leonor Fini never considered herself a Surrealist. They were too sexist. And despite a decades-long career in the avant-garde — she was born in 1907, and died in 1996 — she ...

You have probably never heard of Leonor Fini, even though she was one of the most photographed people of the 20th century. Queen of the Paris art world, she was constantly in the news - fêted for her ...

An overlooked female artist is starting to get her due. Nearly 30 years after her death, Leonor Fini's captivating, often gender-bending images are attracting renewed attention. She is one of the ...