Leonor Fini 1908-1996

La Rosée 1963 Oil on Canvas

Leonor Fini (1908-1996), born in Argentina, was spirited away to Trieste by her Italian mother before she was a year old. For the first six years of her life she was disguised as a boy whenever she left her home to avoid kidnap attempts by her father. Raised in the "bohemian" salons of a radically changing Europe, her precociousness manifested in the creation of a persona of incredibly strong will and intense sensitivity. Fini always refused to accept being categorized. This is evident in her wide variations of media, style, and purpose. She has been called a painter, an illustrator, a designer, a feminist, a mystic, and a voluptuary. In face, she was all of these things, however, first and foremost, she was always LEONOR FINI.

These and other images by Leonor Fini can be seen at CFM Gallery.

SELECTION OF INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1997	La Vie Idéale (Retrospective) CFM Gallery, New York
1997	Retrospective Galerie Dionne, Paris
1995	Galerie Dionne, Paris
1992	CFM (Leonor Fini: The Artist as Designer), New York
1986	Musée de Luxembourg (Rétrospective), Paris
1983	Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti,
	Retrospective, Ferrara, Italy
1978	Musée d'Art Moderne, Latem, Belgium
1972	Rétrospective en Japon (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto)
1970	Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
1965	Galerie Iolas, Paris
	Casino de Knokke-le-Zoute (Retrospective),
	Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1963	Iolas Gallery, New York
1960	Kaplan Gallery, London, Preface by Max Ernst
1948	Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels/Antwerp
1939	Julian Levy Gallery, New York, Preface by Giorgio de
	Chirico
1936	Julian Levy Gallery, New York (With Max Ernst)

SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998	Mirror images, MIT, Boston
1998	Peggy Guggenheim Centennial, Guggenheim, NYC
1998	Julien Levy-Portrait of an Art Gallery, NYC
1990	Biennial de Venise, Biennial de San Paulo, Quadriennial
	de Roma & the Salon de Mai à Paris
	Selections from the Collection, The Kinsey Institute,
	Indianapolis
1987	Jean-Paul Guibbert: Amis, images, et de L'Autre Côté
	des Objets, Musée d'Art Moderne Centre Georges
	Pompidou, Paris
	Fashion and Surrealism, FIT Gallery, New York
	Women Artists in the Surrealist Movement, SUNY, New
	York and Stony Brook
1982	Paul Eluard et Ses Amis Peintres, Musée d'Art
	Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1975	Collection Peggy Guggenheim, Orangerie and Galleria
	Civica d'Arte Moderna, Paris & Torino
1972	The Surrealist Experience, Richard Gray Gallery,
	Chicago
1968	Dix Maîtres Contemporatins, Gallery Isy Brachot,
	Bruxelles
1966	Surrealism A State of Mind, University of California,
	Santa Barbara
	Art Fantastique, Vienne
1960/61	Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Palais de
	Savoie
1957	Bosch, Goya et le Fantastique, Musée des Beaux-Arts,
	Bordeaux
1936	Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism, MOMA, New York
	La Surréalisme, New Burlington Galleries, London