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Leonor
Fini's art offers a woman's take on surrealism, which large dealt
with male fantasies, by offering a female view of the female body
and of erotic pleasures. Fini was one of the more international figures
of the Surrealist movement. She was born in Argentina, raised in her
mother's home town of Trieste, Italy, and spent most of her artistic
life in Paris, where she had her first solo show in 1932. Although
she was friends with many of the leading surrealists (including Jean
Cocteau, Rene Magritte and de Chirico), she never formally joined
the movement though she did include her works in several of their
International Surrealist Exhibitions. After the Second World War,
she had many one-person shows in Europe and America (plus a major
retrospective in Japan in 1972). Although she is best known for her
paintings, prints, and drawings, she also created stage designs for
operas and ballets including one of her own, Le Rêve de Leonor
(1949), which was choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton and performed
to music by Sir Benjamin Britten. Fini's works are to be found in
many important collections of modern art. Her obituary in The London
Times stressed her physical beauty, her erotic art, and her legions
of lovers, whose names "read like a roll call of the literary
and artistic talents of that brilliant age."
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