Fini, Leonor[a]

(8/30/1908 Buenos Aires-1/18/1996 Paris) (Argentina / Italy / France) Painter, engraver, draughtsman, and illustrator. Surrealist artist influenced by Max Ernst and Dali, but not formally trained. Explicit sexuality is expressed in many of her paintings and prints.

   Reproductions: Blonde ecstasy; 1968; oil; Smith, 1980: 178 . [Copulating couple]; etching; Klinger, 1982c: fig. 46 . [Couple copulating]; 1992; Kro-nhausen,1970c: pp. 48, 49 [B]. [Couple copulating standing], from Satyricon; lithograph; Smith, 1974: p. 137 [C]. [Couple copulating doggy-style]; 1992; ink sketch; Haught 1992: p. 53 [B] / Hurwood, 1975: p. 201 [B]. [Couple in elegant train compartment]; oil on canvas; Kronhausen, 1973: colorplate 3 [C]. [Erect male and woman]; ink; Klinger, 1982c: fig. 75 [B]. [Flagellation scene]; lithograph; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 128 [B]. [Group cunnilingus scene]; Kronhausen,1970c: p. 49 [B]. [Group sex scene]; Kronhausen,1970c: p. 48 [B]. Illustration from Story of O; lithograph; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 128 [B] / Neret, 2000: p. 599 [B]. Le Long du Chemin; oil; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 129 [B]. Little faun; Brusendorff, 1960d: p. 95 [B]. [Man fondling another man while being fellated by a woman]; lithograph; Smith, 1974: p. 136 [B]. My deer [woman copulating with large antelope]; ink; Kro-nhausen, 1973: p. 26 [B] / 6-108: fig. 185 [B]. [Woman fellating man]; ink drawing; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 129 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 5: pp. 720-722; Virginia Clement, "Leonor, un souterrain nomme desir," Aesculape 35, 1 (March 1954): pp. 63-69; Jean-Claude Didieu, Fetes secretes: dessins(Paris: Editions du Regard, 1978); DoA vol. 11: pp. 85 -86; Florent Fels, "L'ange du bizarre, Leonor Fini," Aescaulape 35, 3 (March 1954): pp. 52-62; Silvio Gaggi, "Leonor Fine: a mythology of the feminine," Art International 23 (September 1979): pp. 34-39+; Karl Heinz Kramberg, Schone Liebe der Hexen: erotische Ze-ichungen (Munich: Kurt Desch, 1971); Vollmer II 1955: p. 107.