Lot n° 106
Estimation :
200 - 250
EUR
Leonor Fini: Head of a Young Girl, 1970 (signed) - Lot 106
Leonor Fini: Head of a Young Girl, 1970 (signed)
Original color lithograph on Arches vellum
Annotated “E.A.” (artist’s proof) in pencil in the lower left corner, signed “Leonor Fini” in pencil in the lower right corner
Dimensions: Sheet 64 × 49 cm (25.2 × 19.3 in.)
Condition: Very good. Sheet is clean and has not been exposed to light; free of foxing, creases, and sun damage. Hanger tabs intact. Unframed.
Private collection, France
The face of a young girl emerges from a field of ochre, honey, and pale gray washes, her features barely defined—the eyes two blurred hollows, the mouth a single dark line—while her hair dissolves into grainy patches. A touch of red marks her left temple. The subject belongs to a series of dissolving young women’s heads that Fini explored in lithography and aquatint around 1970, and more broadly to the world of masks, sphinxes, and spectral presences that runs through her work, from her theater and opera sets to her graphic art. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 and raised in Trieste, this self-taught painter moved to Paris in 1931 and soon became friends with Ernst, Éluard, Bataille, and Brauner; she exhibited with the Surrealists while always refusing to join the group. Sphinxes, cats, androgynes, and enigmatic women populate her paintings, and she worked extensively for the stage while also illustrating works by Sade, Poe, Marcel Aymé, and *The Story of O*. This print is an artist’s proof, printed outside the numbered edition.
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