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Inv. n°: CLJR1

Etude pour "La bergère des sphinx"

Signed lower right 'Leonor Fini' and dated '1941'. This study is a preface to the painting “The Shepherdess of the Sphinxes,” currently on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

35 x 27.8 cm
1941
Graphite pencil on paper

Provenance

  • Herkens family (Maison Franck), Anvers
  • Acquired at VanDerKindere Auctioneer, Brussels, 2026

Publications

  • X. Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Le Musée de Poche, Paris, 1973, p. 10
  • X. Gauthier, Leonor Fini, Le Musée de Poche, Paris, 1979, p. 10
  • P. Webb, Leonor Fini. Métamorphoses d'un art, Les Editions de l'Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 2007, p. 93
  • P. Webb, Sphinx. The Art and Life of Leonor Fini, The Vendome Press, New York, 2009, p. 93

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