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Property from a Private West Coast Collection

Leonor Fini

Les Stylites (Les Stylists)

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private West Coast Collection

Leonor Fini 

(1907 - 1996)


Les Stylites (Les Stylists)

signed Leonor Fini (lower right); signed L. Fini, titled and dated 1976 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

45 ¾ by 32 in.

116.2 by 81.3 cm.

Executed in 1976.

Please note this work has been requested for the upcoming exhibition 'Leonor Fini: The Gaze of the Sphinx' to be held at the Palazzo Reale, Milan from February to June 2025.

Guy Pieters, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (acquired by 1978)

Freddy Huyghe, Veurne, Belgium

Dr. Desutter, Belgium

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 6 February 2007, lot 404 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Jean-Claude Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Paris, 1978, p. 124; pl. 72, illustrated in color (titled Les Stylites)

Constantin Jelenski, et. al., Leonor Fini, découverte et masquée, Paris, 1978

Jacques Audiberti, Yves Bonnefoy, et. al., Leonor Fini, Paris, 1981 (with incorrect dimensions), n.p., illustrated and n.p., illustrated (detail)

Pierre Borgue, Leonor Fini ou le théâtre de l’Imaginaire, Paris, 1983, pp. 142, 155, 157 and 248; p. 156, illustrated

Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini, Catalog Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, Zurich, 2021, no. 868, p. 458, illustrated in color; p. 459

Château de Vascoeuil, Leonor Fini au Château de Vascoeuil, 1977, no. 4

Musée d'Art moderne de Sint-Martens-Latem, Tentoonstelling, 1978

Oostende, Casino Kursaal, Leonor Fini, 1980, no. 46

Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda; Kitakyushu Municipal Art Museum and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Leonor Fini Retrospective, 1985-86, no. 26

Bad Frankenhausen, Panorama Museum, Leonor Fini: Peintre du Fantastique, 1997-98, no. 28 (with incorrect dimensions)