Fini

Léonor Fini is a painter, theater designer and writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a major figure in the surrealist art scene of the 1930s.

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She moved to Trieste, Italy, as a child where she discovered various artistic and cultural influences. In 1931, she settled permanently in Paris and became friends with major artistic figures such as André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Dora Maar, Dora Maar, Albert Camus, Albert Camus, Georges Bataille and Paul Éluard.

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Fini approaches painting through an alchemy between science, magic, dream and legend. Her work is characterized by themes of metamorphosis, femininity, and eroticism. She developed a distinctive artistic style characterized by often provocative depictions of femininity, exploring themes such as power, desire, and identity. His paintings feature powerful and mysterious female figures and chimerical characters in dreamlike and baroque landscapes.

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Her first major exhibitions took place in the 1930s, including at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1932, where she presented her first surrealist works. She also participated in major group exhibitions, such as the International Surrealism Exhibition in London in 1936, alongside renowned artists such as Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. His first monographic exhibition took place in New York in 1939. His works have been widely exhibited across Europe and the United States, with exhibitions at Galerie René Drouin in Paris and at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in the 1940s. A very large retrospective of his work was dedicated to him at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris in 1986.

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His works are preserved in numerous prestigious museums around the world, such as the Museum of Modern Art in the City of Paris, the Pompidou Center, the Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum in Miyazaki and the Tate Modern in London.

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