(Women) Artists
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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)