Lot #2: Original Leonor Fini "Ceres" Framed Litho Numbered Exemplaire Hors Blind Stamp

Her paintings are made up of vertigo, said Max Ernst of Leonor Fini, inhabited by the most astonishing collection of legendary beings...Miraculous plays of darkness and light are given ultimate expression in the pulsating pearly colors of this chimerical flesh, that resembles the bifid love-making of sphinxes. While most women in the Surrealist circle were relegated to the idealized position of muse or the passive position of modelDal, after all, maintained that true artistic talent resided in the testiclesFini was a vital creative force in the movement for many decades. Powerful images of women dominate her dreamscapes, but she is also notable for producing, in 1942, what has been called the first erotic male nude ever painted by a woman.Leonor Fini was born on August 30, 1907 in Buenos Aires, and raised in Trieste, on the ItalianSlovenian border. An ocular disease in her adolescence forced her to wear bandages over both eyes, and after recovering her vision she resolved to become an artist. In Paris, she came to know de Chirico, Picasso, and Dal and was often seen and photographed in cafe society dressed in men's clothes or in nothing but white boots and a feathered cape.