In the manner of Leonor Fini - original study of female - watercolour on paper - signed

Here we have a painting in the manner of Leonor Fini - an original study of female - watercolour on paper - signed and maybe of the artist herself

This piece came from a portfolio of many renowned artists purchased from a Sussex Auction house UK.

This painting has no provenance so can only be described as 'in the manner of ' , you must make up your own mind up of its true origin - That said this is a beautifully executed painting in its own right

Throughout a long career, the canvases of Leonor Fini's journey between the pains of despair and the serenity of enlightenment but remain polished with eroticism at every extreme. Driven by passion, liberty, and sexual experimentation, she was arguably the most rebellious, theatrical, and autonomous of the female Surrealists.

Described by many to be particularly tall and commanding in physical appearance with very unusual cat-like eyes, in many ways she was more creaturely than human.

Although she exhibited with the Surrealists, Fini's staunch individuality was often at odds with the collective ideas of the group. Unlike many women who became central to the movement, she was not impressed by the charisma and intellectualism of male members. Already well read and versed in psychoanalytic theory, Fini refused to be submissive or subordinate to men. She formed an intense friendship with Leonora Carrington in the summer before the onset of World War II, but in general did not draw upon the support of other women in the way that Carrington and Remedios Varo did. She lived more flamboyantly and communally and always with two men, one as her lover and one as her friend.

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