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Leonor FINI - The Belle and her Prince Charming, original signed engraving

Leonor FINI
The Belle and her Prince Charming
Original engraving signed in pencil on nacre Japan paper
Dimensions de la feuille : 32 x 41,5 cm
Excellent condition

Arman : (1928-2005) Arman Fernandez, called Arman, is a french artist born in 1928 and dead in 2005. He is famous for his "accumulations", works using transformed products as it is. He studied at Nice Decorative Art School and completed his formation at The École du Louvre. He met Yves Klein in his home town, at the age of 20. In Vincent Van Gogh's style, he signed his works by his surname (and decided to put off the "d" in Armand). The famous galerist Iris Clert took him as Yves Klein under his cover; Yves Klein's "Vide" exhibition in 1958 is followed by Arman's "Plein" exhibition 2 years later. Both friends as other personalities created the "Nouveaux Réalistes" group including César and Niki de Saint Phalle. He then shared his free time between New York and France.
Léonor Fini : Born in Buenos Aires in 1908, Léonor Fini is a Surrealist painter, set designer and author from italian origin. In 1937, she leaved Italy for Paris and met André Breton and the Surrealists. Inspired by their theories, she experimented the « automatic drawing ». She beccame a friend of Georges Bataille, Victor Brauner, Paul Éluard and Max Ernst without integrating the group. Her first monographic exhibiition took place in New York, in 1939. Leonor Fini realized many portraits (Jacques Audiberti, Jean Genet, Anna Magnani), costumes for theater, ballet and opera. She also illustrated texts by Marcel Aymé (La Vouivre), Edgar Poe, The Marquis de Sade (History of Juliette, 1945). Many poets, writers, painters and critics dedicated her monographs, essays or poems as Jean Cocteau, Giorgio De Chirico, Éluard, Ernst, Alberto Moravia... She died in 1996.

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Collection André et Bona Pieyre de Mandiargues
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Ulla & Heiner Pietzsch Collection (Germany)
nufnuf-art fondation (Switzerland)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Artothèque, Poitiers (France)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
Collection Claude Lemand (France)
Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch (France)
Musée d'art et d'histoire Louis Senlecq (France)
Musée de Pully (Switzerland)
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