(Women) Artists
(Women) Artists
C'est fini: An Important Private Collection of Surrealist Art
Leonor Fini
Tristan und Isolde
Lot Closed
March 16, 02:02 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Leonor Fini
1908 - 1996
Tristan und Isolde
signed Leonor Fini (lower right)
gouache and pastel on paper laid down on canvas
54.5 by 74.8 cm. 21½ by 29⅜ in.
Framed: 73.5 by 94 cm. 29 by 37 in.
Executed in 1977-78.
Metropolitan Opera, New York (acquired by 1978)
Stephan Lion, Southampton, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997
Jean-Claude Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, p. 114, illustrated in colour (as dating from 1977 and with incorrect medium and dimensions)
Neil Zuckerman, Leonor Fini - The Artist as Designer. An Exhibition of Ballet, Theatre, Film, Book and Commercial Designs, New York, 1992
Richard Overstreet and Neil Zuckerman, Leonor Fini: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 885, p. 462, illustrated in colour (with incorrect medium)
New York, Metropolitan Opera, 1978
New York, CFM Gallery, Leonor Fini La Vie Idéale, 1997
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Leonor Fini and Her Contemporaries. Surrealism Through the Eyes of Women Artists, 2001-02, p. 25, illustrated in colour (with incorrect medium)
Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Leonor Fini: L'Italienne de Paris, 2009
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Une Grande Curiosité, 2009-10, p. 54, illustrated in colour (with incorrect medium)
New York, CFM Gallery, Leonor Fini Paintings 1931-1987, 2010