Léonor Fini (1907-1996)
Pour Sheridan le Fanu, 1974
Oil on canvas
Signed on the bottom right
100 x 120 cm
Provenance:
- Galerie Altmann Carpentier, Paris
- Purchased from the latter by the current owners' father
- Then by descent
- Private collection, Paris
Exhibitions:
- Paris, Galerie Altmann Carpentier, "Léonor Fini, Œuvres récentes", 1974
- Ostende, Casino Kursaal, 1980, no. 24
Bibliography:
- L. Fini, "Le Livre de Léonor Fini", Ed. La Guilde du Livre, Lausanne, 1975 unpaginated
- L. Fini, "Léonor Fini: Das grosse Bilderbuch", Ed. Dech, Munich, 1975, unpaginated
- C. Masson, "Sur les ailes du rêve, Léonor Fini et le livre de sa vie", L'Estampille, Paris, 15 January 1976, illustrated p. 42
- J.C. Dedieu, "Léonor Fini", Ed. Frédéric Birr, Paris, 1978, unpaginated
- Germon, "Léonor Fini: un art majeur pour une vie sans concessions", Ed. Tremplin, Paris, 1978, illustrated pp. 20-21
- C. Jelenski, "Léonor Fini, découverte et masquée", Collection "Le Plan des Sources", Le Sphinx-Vilo, Paris, 1978, unpaginated
- J. Audiberti, Y. Bonnefoy, V. Brauner et al., "Léonor Fini", Ed. Hervas, Paris, 1981, unpaginated
- P. Borgue, "Léonor Fini ou le théâtre de l'imaginaire: mythes et symboles de l'univers Finien", Ed. Lettres Modernes, Paris, 1983, unpaginated
- Léonor Fini, "Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, volume II", Richard Overstreet, Neil Zuckerman, Weinstein, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021, illustrated under no. 825 p. 446
Note: this is an original work created for Carmilla, book by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (1814-1873).