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Leonor Fini
Portraits and Passagers, Apr 27 - Jun 7, 2024

Leonor Fini: Portraits and Passagers

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Leonor Fini, Portraits and Passagers
"There are really too many people. We would like to remember a few furtive faces, recreate them to find them again." - Leonor Fini on The Passagers, 1992

Weinstein Gallery proudly presents Leonor Fini: Portraits and Passagers, an exhibition of the artist's distinguished body of work in portraiture from 1939 to 1992. Exemplified in twenty-four carefully curated paintings and works on paper, this presentation explores the multifaceted nature of identity through Fini's discerning gaze.

 

Within a few years of her arrival in Paris in 1933, Leonor Fini (1907 - 1996) established herself as a force of the avant-garde, having a solo show at the Julian Levy Gallery and exhibiting with the surrealists in the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London and in Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recognized & respected as a painter of surreal and somewhat unsettling scenes, Fini took a turn in the mid-1930s and began to take a strong interest in portraiture. This would produce some of her most compelling compositions and prove quite fortuitous as a source of income throughout her life. 

 

From the elite and socially privileged she painted in Monte Carlo during World War II to the ghostly and enigmatic "Passagers series" of the 1980s and 1990s, Fini employed her remarkable skill as a classical painter with new, unconventional techniques of her own making. She breathed life into her subjects, capturing not just their physical likeness but also their innermost essence. 

 

Leonor Fini: Portraits and Passengers is a rich tapestry of psychological introspection and socio-cultural commentary. The exhibition invites visitors to to consider the complexities of selfhood and subjectivity while encountering the diverse characters that populate Fini's real and imagined worlds.

 

 

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Works
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait of Mrs. H I, 1942
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait of Mrs. H I, 1942
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Oil on canvas
    22 x 18 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Passager IV, 1990
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Passager IV, 1990
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Oil on paper mounted on canvas
    28 x 23 5/8 in
    71.1 x 60 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait féminin no. 39, c. 1952
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait féminin no. 39, c. 1952
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Oil on canvas
    36 1/4 x 25 3/4 in
    92.1 x 65.4 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Mrs. H, 1941
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Mrs. H, 1941
    Oil on canvas
    7 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait de Mme Lucienne Domb, 1950-52
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait de Mme Lucienne Domb, 1950-52
    Oil on canvas
    28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in
    73 x 60 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait of Emeline de Casteja, c. 1940
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait of Emeline de Casteja, c. 1940
    Oil on canvas
    8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Tête d'homme (Head of a Man), 1987
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Tête d'homme (Head of a Man), 1987
    Oil on paper on canvas
    21 3/4 x 18 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait de Mme Albouny, c. 1950
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait de Mme Albouny, c. 1950
    Oil on canvas
    9 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait de Cesare Pavani III / Nu debout, c. 1943-46
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait de Cesare Pavani III / Nu debout, c. 1943-46
    Signed lower right "Leonor"
    Oil on paper
    14 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Tête de femme, 1946-50
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Tête de femme, 1946-50
    Watercolor and ink on paper
    19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Portrait de femme
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Portrait de femme
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Watercolor and ink wash on paper
    13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in
    34.9 x 26 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Rachel
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Rachel
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Oil on canvas
    25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
    65 x 50 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Tête de femme
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Tête de femme
    Signed "Leonor Fini", lower right
    Oil on paper
    21 1/4 x 15 in
    54.1 x 38.1 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Carmilla, 1983
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Carmilla, 1983
    Oil on paper on canvas
    18 x 13 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Visage de Femme (Face of a Woman), c. 1976
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Visage de Femme (Face of a Woman), c. 1976
    Oil on paper with lithographic base
    21 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Visagea à l'aquarelle verte(Face in Green Watercolor), c. 1968
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Visagea à l'aquarelle verte(Face in Green Watercolor), c. 1968
    Watercolor and ink on paper
    15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Visage imaginaire no 42, 1975 - 80
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Visage imaginaire no 42, 1975 - 80
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Oil on paper
    18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in
    47 x 39.4 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Passager XXXVIII (Azuba), 1987
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Passager XXXVIII (Azuba), 1987
    Signed "Leonor Fini" lower right
    Oil on paper maroufle on canvas
    21 x 17 in
    53.3 x 43.2 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Visage, c. 1970
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Visage, c. 1970
    Signed verso
    Oil on paper
    20 x 14 1/2 in
    50.8 x 36.8 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Octave, 1978
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Octave, 1978
    Watercolor and gouache on paper
    20 x 16 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Alle Mia Lepri
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Alle Mia Lepri
    Signed and titled "alle mia Lepri Leonor" lower right
    Watercolor on paper
    13 1/2 x 9 1/2
  • Leonor Fini, Untitled, n.d.
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Untitled, n.d.
    Watercolor on paper
    15 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches
  • Leonor Fini, Leven, 1984
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Leven, 1984
    Signed lower right
    Watercolor on paper
    26 x 20 in
    66 x 50.8 cm
  • Leonor Fini, Berenice, 1992
    Leonor Fini
    Argentina, 1907-1996
    Berenice, 1992
    Oil on paper on canvas
    18 5/8 x 15 1/2 inches

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