Surrealism
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Leonor Fini (1908-1996), born in Argentina, was spirited away to Trieste by her Italian mother before she was a year old. For the first six years of her life she was disguised as a boy whenever she left her home to avoid kidnap attempts by her father. Raised in the "bohemian" salons of a radically changing Europe, her precociousness manifested in the creation of a persona of incredibly strong will and intense sensitivity. Fini always refused to accept being categorized. This is evident in her wide variations of media, style, and purpose. She has been called a painter, an illustrator, a designer, a feminist, a mystic, and a voluptuary. In face, she was all of these things, however, first and foremost, she was always LEONOR FINI.

SELECTION OF INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1997 La Vie Idéale (Retrospective) CFM Gallery, New York
1997 Retrospective Galerie Dionne, Paris
1995 Galerie Dionne, Paris
1992 CFM (Leonor Fini: The Artist as Designer), New York
1986 Musée de Luxembourg (Rétrospective), Paris
1983 Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti,
Retrospective, Ferrara, Italy
1978 Musée d'Art Moderne, Latem, Belgium
1972 Rétrospective en Japon (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto)
1970 Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
1965 Galerie Iolas, Paris
Casino de Knokke-le-Zoute (Retrospective),
Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1963 Iolas Gallery, New York
1960 Kaplan Gallery, London, Preface by Max Ernst
1948 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels/Antwerp
1939 Julian Levy Gallery, New York, Preface by Giorgio de
Chirico
1936 Julian Levy Gallery, New York (With Max Ernst)


SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Mirror images, MIT, Boston
1998 Peggy Guggenheim Centennial, Guggenheim, NYC
1998 Julien Levy-Portrait of an Art Gallery, NYC
1990 Biennial de Venise, Biennial de San Paulo, Quadriennial
de Roma & the Salon de Mai à Paris
Selections from the Collection, The Kinsey Institute,
Indianapolis
1987 Jean-Paul Guibbert: Amis, images, et de L'Autre Côté
des Objets, Musée d'Art Moderne Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris
Fashion and Surrealism, FIT Gallery, New York
Women Artists in the Surrealist Movement, SUNY, New
York and Stony Brook
1982 Paul Eluard et Ses Amis Peintres, Musée d'Art
Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1975 Collection Peggy Guggenheim, Orangerie and Galleria
Civica d'Arte Moderna, Paris & Torino
1972 The Surrealist Experience, Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago
1968 Dix Maîtres Contemporatins, Gallery Isy Brachot,
Bruxelles
1966 Surrealism A State of Mind, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Art Fantastique, Vienne
1960/61 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Palais de
Savoie
1957 Bosch, Goya et le Fantastique, Musée des Beaux-Arts,
Bordeaux
1936 Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism, MOMA, New York
La Surréalisme, New Burlington Galleries, London ...

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