Inv. n°: CL1226

Les Étrangères

Signed ‘Leonor Fini’ (lower right)

Unframed: h. 81 x w. 110 cm; framed: h. 85 x w. 121 x d. 5 cm

1968

Oil on canvas

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Provenance

  • Mario Tazzoli, Turin
  • Collection Toso, Turin
  • Private collection, Turin (inherited from the above)
  • Acquired at Galleria Tommaso Calabro, Milan, Italy, 2023

Publications

  • C. Jelenski, Leonor Fini, Clairefontaine, Lausanne, 1968 (and subsequent editions), p. 39
  • T. Nomura, The Expressive Image of Man, 1971
  • Y. Florenne, Leonor Fini D'un Jour Plus Clair que le Jour, Turin, 1972, p. 39
  • R. G. de la Serna, Senos, Ed Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona, 1972
  • X. Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Le musée de poche, 1973
  • J.-C. Dedieu, Leonor Fini, Frédéric Birr, 1978
  • Compilation of numerous texts on the artist, preface C. Jelenski, Leonor Fini, découverte et masquée, « Le Plan des Sources » Le Sphinx-Vilo, Paris, 1978
  • E. Cooper, The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West, 1980
  • J. Audiberti, Y. Bonnefoy, V. Brauner, M. Brion, J. Cocteau, P. Éluard, M. Ernst, J. Kott, J. Genet, Leonor Fini, Hervas, Paris, 1981
  • P. Borgue, Leonor Fini ou le Théâtre de L'Imaginaire: Mythes et Symboles de l'Univers Finien, Lettres Modernes, Paris, 1983
  • E. Lauter, Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women, Midland Book, 1984, p. 126
  • K. Ogata, A New Species which Violates Boundaries, Leonor Fini, Tokyo, 2006, pp. 12, 199
  • P. Webb, Leonor Fini : Métamorphoses d'un Art, Impr. nationale, 7th November 2007
  • P. Webb, Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, 2009
  • R. Overstreet and N. Zukerman, Leonor Fini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, volume II, Weinstein, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2021, p. 425, no. 737 (illustrated in colour)
  • V. Sgarbi, D. Isaia & G. Tulino, Leonor Fini, Fabrizio Clerici: Insomnia, Trento, 2023, pp. 210-211
  • A. Marche, "Musée FAMM, l'espace culturel dédié aux artistes Femmes, à Mougins", Allures Magazine, 13th May 2024
  • A. Marche, in Allure Magazine (ed.), Musée FAMM? l'espace culturel dédié aux artistes Femmes, à Mougins, 28th August 2024
  • J.R. Cohen, "Minor Threats: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement", FAMM - Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France, Merrell and FAMM, May 2025, p. 52
  • S. Gaensheimer, I. Malz and A. Kempkes, "Surreal worlds", Queer Modernism: 1900–1950, Hirmer, Munich, Germany, 21st October 2025, p. 103
  • The Independant Collector, Let's Talk About Women in Art, 10th February 2026, p. 2

Exhibitions

  • Galerie Saqqârah, Gstaad, Switzerland, 1968 — 1969
  • Malerei des Surrealismus, Kunstverein in Hamburg, n° 52, Germany, 1969
  • Galleria d'arte Il Fauno, n°10, Turin, Italy, 1970
  • Galerie Lambert Monet, n°2, Geneva, Switzerland, 1970
  • Galerie Verrière, Paris, 1971
  • Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Palazzo dei diamanti, Ferrara, Italy, 2nd July 1983 — 30th September 1983
  • Leonor Fini, Fabrizio Clerici: Insomnia, Mart, Rovereto, Italy, 16th July 2023 — 5th November 2023
  • FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), Mougins, France, from 21st June 2024 to present day
  • Vergessene Avantgarden – Queere Moderne“ (Modern Oblivion – Queer Modernity), K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 20th September 2025 — 15th February 2026

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