![]() ![]() Original red hard-grain morocco by Paul Manne (d. Loosely inserted in this copy is a publisher's slip containing a short biography of Fini. ![]() She had a passion for the stage, and worked for several theatres as a costume and poster designer. ![]() A friend of De Chirico, Picasso, Ernst and Dalí, who influenced her work, Fini exhibited for the first time in Christian Dior's gallery, and her first major show was held in 1936 at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York. An attractive example of book design and illustration by Les Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires, this volume reproduces the text of Shakespeare's Othello in the influential French translation of Victor Hugo, with colour plates by the surrealist painter and author Leonor Fini (1907-1996).īorn in Buenos Aires and raised in Trieste, Fini moved to France in the 1930s and quickly became popular in the Parisian art scene as one of the most rebellious and theatrical of the female surrealist. Limited edition, number 750 of 2,950 copies printed on vélin chiffon de rives, handsomely bound. ![]()
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