Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property of a Private Belgian Collector
Leonor Fini
Portrait d'André Pieyre de Mandiargues au grand col de léopard
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Belgian Collector
Leonor Fini
1908 - 1996
Portrait d'André Pieyre de Mandiargues au grand col de léopard
signed Leonor Fini (lower right)
oil on canvas
33.3 by 22cm., 13⅛ by 8⅝in.
Framed: 45.9 by 34.6cm., 18 by 13⅝in.
Painted in 1938-42.
Pierre Le Tan, Paris (sold: Sotheby's, London, P. Le Tan Collection, 25th October 1995, lot 36)
Private Collection, Geneva (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Porro & C., Milan, 30th November 2011, lot 254
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Peter Webb, Sphinx, The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, New York, 2009, illustrated in colour p. 69
Richard Overstreet & Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Zurich, 2020, no. 185, illustrated in colour p. 293