FINI Leonor (1907 Buenos Aires - 1996 Paris), "Ballet Dancer." ("Ballet Dancer").

"Ballet Dancer." ("Ballet Dancer").

Color lithograph, hand-signed in pencil by the artist. Lithograph in passe-partout and in frame behind glass. Format of the work: 62 x 45 cm.; overall: 78 x 58 cm.
Edition: 46 numbered pieces, this one no. 28. Very good condition.
Léonor Fini (1908-1996), Argentine surrealist painter of Italian descent. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she grew up in Trieste, Italy. At the age of 17 she moved to Paris. There she met: Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and his wife Gala. She was associated with Italian aristocrat Stanislao Lepri and Polish writer and publicist Konstanty Jelenski. The three lived together, in a relationship, in a house in Paris, leading an intense social life and revolving among the bohemian artistic community.