Leonor Fini

3 albums/50 artworks – Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and taken to  Trieste by her mother when she was 18 months old. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on both eyes. After recovering, she decided to become an artist. She moved to Milan at the age of 17 and a gallery in Trieste exhibited one of her paintings that year. She thereafter received a commission to paint portraits from dignitaries in Milan where she had her first one-woman show at the Galerie Barbaroux in 1929. She moved to Paris in 1931 when she was 24.…

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