Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Leonor Fini
Portrait de María Félix I or Reina del fuego
Auction Closed
May 18, 09:51 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks From an Important Estate
Leonor Fini
1908 - 1996
Portrait de María Félix I or Reina del fuego
signed Fini (lower right)
oil on canvas
35⅞ by 23¼ in.
91.1 by 59.1 cm.
Executed circa 1954.
María Félix, Mexico City
Christie's New York, 17 July 2007, lot 269 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Christie's New York, 17 July 2007, lot 269 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Madge Garland, The Changing Face of Beauty. Four Thousand Years of Beautiful Women, New York, 1957, illustrated
Eugenio Aguirre, Ricardo Noriega, Marco Antonio Belmar and Daniel Nierma, María y sus pintores, Mexico City, 1922
Ariel Solorio and Javier Tellez, eds. María Félix, Una raya en el agua, Mexico City, 1997
Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 513, p. 370, illustrated in color (as signed Leonore Fini)
Eugenio Aguirre, Ricardo Noriega, Marco Antonio Belmar and Daniel Nierma, María y sus pintores, Mexico City, 1922
Ariel Solorio and Javier Tellez, eds. María Félix, Una raya en el agua, Mexico City, 1997
Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 513, p. 370, illustrated in color (as signed Leonore Fini)