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Leonor Fini
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Dans les dernières années de sa vie, la peinture de Leonor Fini, hantée par la mort, laisse le noir obscurcir progressivement la matière picturale. A l’âge de 88 ans, l’artiste s’éteint à Paris le 18 janvier 1996 ; à un vol d’oiseau de la belle rivière, elle repose dans le petit cimetière de Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire (Loir-et-Cher). En son hommage, nous déposons sur sa tombe une rose couleur d’automne.
"Mon apprentissage a consisté à regarder avec un plaisir attentif les peintures qui m'attiraient." - Leonor Fini
"Une femme enveloppée de soleil, la lune sous ses pieds et une couronne de douze étoiles sur la tête." - Jean Paul Guilbert
"Peut-être pourrait-on dire qu'il y a dans mes tableaux une atmosphère baudelairienne et que tout y est peint dans des couleurs que nous imaginons baudelairienne." - Leonor Fini
"Quand il n'y a pas de toile sur les chevalets, il arrive que les chats sautent d'une chevalet à l'autre; ils se croisent dans l'aire comme des acrobates. Est-ce qu'ils rient à ce moment ? " - Leonor Fini
"Je dessine presque toujours dans mon lit, entourée d'encres de Chine, de crayons et de chats. " - Leonor Fini
"Les rencontres fragiles de la vie et de la mort dans leur merveilleuse imagerie renaissante m'ont longtemps hanté." - Leonor Fini
Notes of biography
Leonor Fini was born in 1908 in Buenos Aires (Argentinia) from italo-Argentinian parents. She was very young when her family settled down in Italy. She started painting very young, admiring the Quattrocento’s painters at first, then the manierists of the XVI° century whose faint graces fascinated her. Leonor Fini studied in Trieste - where she spent childhood and adolescence -, with the influence of Carlo Carrà.
She lived in Paris and from 1933, she participated to the surrealist group activities .Three years later, she took part in several exhibitions as well as the exhibition “Surrealism” in London (Burlington Gallery, 1936), in New York (“Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism”, 1936), in Zurich and in Brussels. Her first French exhibition, after her first one in Milan, was organized in Paris in 1933. Eluard and Giorgio de Chirico were the preface writers of her catalogue for her first personal exhibition in New York (1938).
She always had passion for the stage and worked for the theatre, the ballet, and the cinema. Black and white artist, painter in watercolours and engraver, Léonor Fini illustrated many works (“the Storm” from Shakespeare, “Juliette” from Sade, “Les Fleurs du Mal” from Baudelaire, etc). The work of Leonor Fini was successively composed with silhouettes of teenagers, fantastic landscapes, bald women, germinations with almost abstract style, always marked by the strangeness. There was always in the artist the ambiguity of the covered subject, an exacerbated femininity, often with a morbid erotism or a turbid environment.
A great retrospective of her work (paintings, gouaches, watercolours, drawings, engravings, editions of bibliophilism, masks) was devoted to her to the Luxembourg Museum (Paris, 1986).
Leonor Fini died in 1996 in Paris.
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Complete work(s)
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*« Léonor Fini, l’œuvre », Marcel Brion, Ed. Pauvert, 1955 *« Léonor Fini », J.-C. Dedieu, Ed. Frederic Birr, Paris, 1978 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Léonor Fini », Constantin Jelenski, Ed. Clairefontaine, Lausanne, 1968
- « L. F. graphique », J.-P. Guibbert, Ed. La Guilde du Livre et Clair., 1971
- « Léonor Fini », Le Musée de Poche, X. Gauthier, Paris, 1973
- « Léonor Fini », Xavière Gauthier, Ed. Le Musée de Poche, Paris, 1979
- « Léonor Fini, monographie illustrée », Ed. Hervas, Paris, 1981
- « Léonor Fini », Ed. Michèle Trinckvel, Paris, 1986
- L. Fini, ou, Les métamorphoses d'une œuvre », J. Godard, Ed. Le Sémaphore, 1996
- « Scandaleusement d'elles. Trente-quatre femmes surr. », G. Colvile, J.-M. Place, 1999
- « L. Fini : métamorphoses d'un art », Peter Webb, Ed. Imprimerie nationale, 2007
- « Leonor Fini - Miroir des chats », R. Overstreet, Ed. Slatkine, 2008
To read from the artist :
- « Le livre de Léonor Fini », José Alvarez, Ed. Mermoud-Clairefontaine, 1979
- « Rogomelec », récit, Ed. Stock, Paris, 1979, Ed. Belin, Paris, 1983
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Stamp by Leonor Fini
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist’s handwritten letter
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Leonor Fini
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Dans les dernières années de sa vie, la peinture de Leonor Fini, hantée par la mort, laisse le noir obscurcir progressivement la matière picturale. A l’âge de 88 ans, l’artiste s’éteint à Paris le 18 janvier 1996 ; à un vol d’oiseau de la belle rivière, elle repose dans le petit cimetière de Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire (Loir-et-Cher). En son hommage, nous déposons sur sa tombe une rose couleur d’automne.
"Mon apprentissage a consisté à regarder avec un plaisir attentif les peintures qui m'attiraient." - Leonor Fini
"Une femme enveloppée de soleil, la lune sous ses pieds et une couronne de douze étoiles sur la tête." - Jean Paul Guilbert
"Peut-être pourrait-on dire qu'il y a dans mes tableaux une atmosphère baudelairienne et que tout y est peint dans des couleurs que nous imaginons baudelairienne." - Leonor Fini
"Quand il n'y a pas de toile sur les chevalets, il arrive que les chats sautent d'une chevalet à l'autre; ils se croisent dans l'aire comme des acrobates. Est-ce qu'ils rient à ce moment ? " - Leonor Fini
"Je dessine presque toujours dans mon lit, entourée d'encres de Chine, de crayons et de chats. " - Leonor Fini
"Les rencontres fragiles de la vie et de la mort dans leur merveilleuse imagerie renaissante m'ont longtemps hanté." - Leonor Fini
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