{"id":128153,"date":"2018-08-08T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=128153"},"modified":"2018-08-08T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:46:43","slug":"leonor-fini-theatre-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/leonor-fini-theatre-of-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>I always imagined that I would have a life very different than the one imagined for me, but I understood from a very early age that I would have to revolt in order to make that life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Leonor Fini<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>Admirers of the Argentine Italian artist Leonor Fini have included Andy Warhol, Madonna, Kim Kardashian West, and more recently Maria Grazia Chiuri, the head of the fashion house Dior, whose spring 2018 collection was dedicated to the artist. Multitalented and fearlessly forward-thinking, Fini refused to be categorized in any way, especially through gender norms. Although Fini exhibited in major surrealist surveys throughout the thirties and forties and counted Max Ernst and Salvador Dal\u00ed as friends, she rejected the movement\u2019s traditional view of woman as muse. Her art explores the masculine and feminine, dominance and submission, eroticism and humor. Fini\u2019s practice went beyond the medium of painting to embrace theater, ballet, the illustrated book, and costume. Rejecting social convention, Fini insisted that identity, like artistic expression, is never fixed\u2014it must constantly be open to inspiration and imagination. The powerful self-portraits she produced throughout her long career present woman as warrior, sphinx, dominatrix, and feline goddess, mastering landscapes and lovers alike.\u00a0<\/em><em>The first American survey of her work, \u201c<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofsex.com\/portfolio_page\/leonor-fini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire 1930\u20131990<\/a>,\u201d will open September 28 at the Museum of Sex and run through March 4, 2019. A selection of Fini\u2019s work appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128167\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_arcachon_1940_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128167\" class=\"wp-image-128167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_arcachon_1940_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_arcachon_1940_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_arcachon_1940_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_arcachon_1940_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_arcachon_1940_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-691x1024.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini in Arcachon, 1940. Photo: unknown photographer. Courtesy of the Estate of Leonor Fini.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128168\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_paris-c-1938_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128168\" class=\"wp-image-128168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_paris-c-1938_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_paris-c-1938_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_paris-c-1938_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_paris-c-1938_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-768x1064.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_paris-c-1938_anonymous_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-739x1024.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini in Paris, ca. 1938. Photo: unknown photographer. Courtesy of the estate of Leonor Fini.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128169\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_nonza-corsica_1967_photo_by_eddy-brofferio_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128169\" class=\"wp-image-128169 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_nonza-corsica_1967_photo_by_eddy-brofferio_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_nonza-corsica_1967_photo_by_eddy-brofferio_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_nonza-corsica_1967_photo_by_eddy-brofferio_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_nonza-corsica_1967_photo_by_eddy-brofferio_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-768x1057.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_nonza-corsica_1967_photo_by_eddy-brofferio_courtesy_of_leonor_fini_estate-744x1024.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini in Nonza, Corsica, 1967. Photo: unknown photographer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128170\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_max-ernst_enrico-colombotto-rosso_nonza_corsica_c_1965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_max-ernst_enrico-colombotto-rosso_nonza_corsica_c_1965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_max-ernst_enrico-colombotto-rosso_nonza_corsica_c_1965.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_max-ernst_enrico-colombotto-rosso_nonza_corsica_c_1965-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_max-ernst_enrico-colombotto-rosso_nonza_corsica_c_1965-768x983.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_max-ernst_enrico-colombotto-rosso_nonza_corsica_c_1965-800x1024.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini, Max Ernst, and Enrico Colombotto Rosso in Nonza, Corsica, ca. 1965. Photo: unknown photographer. Courtesy of the Estate of Leonor Fini.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128171\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-2-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-2-788x1024.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini,\u00a0<i>Femme costum\u00e9e\/Femme en armure <\/i>(Woman in Costume\/Woman in Armor),\u00a01938, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Weinstein Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128172\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-4-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-4-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-4-784x1024.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini,\u00a0<i>Portrait de femme aux feuilles d\u2019acanthe <\/i>(Portrait of Woman with Acanthus Leaves), 1946, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Weinstein Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128173\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint1-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint1-714x1024.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini,\u00a0<i>Dans la tour<\/i> (In the Tower),\u00a01952, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Weinstein Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128174\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-3-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-3-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini,\u00a0<i>L\u2019alcove<\/i> (The Alcove),\u00a01941, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Weinstein Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128248\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_femme-assise-sur-un-homme-nu_1942_private-collection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_femme-assise-sur-un-homme-nu_1942_private-collection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_femme-assise-sur-un-homme-nu_1942_private-collection.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_femme-assise-sur-un-homme-nu_1942_private-collection-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leonor-fini_femme-assise-sur-un-homme-nu_1942_private-collection-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini, <em>Femme assise sur un homme nu<\/em> (Woman Seated on a Naked Man), 1942, oil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128175\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128175\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-5-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint-5-768x776.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini,\u00a0<i>La le\u00e7on de botanique <\/i>(The Botany Lesson),\u00a01974, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Weinstein Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128176\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128176\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint6-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/paint6-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonor Fini,\u00a0<i>Les aveugles<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>(The Blind Ones),\u00a01968, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Weinstein Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always imagined that I would have a life very different than the one imagined for me, but I understood from a very early age that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. \u2014Leonor Fini Admirers of the Argentine Italian artist Leonor Fini have included Andy Warhol, Madonna, Kim Kardashian West, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2384],"tags":[922,5319,34924,35006,2226,5049],"class_list":["post-128153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-andy-warhol","tag-dior","tag-kim-kardashian-west","tag-leonor-fini","tag-madonna","tag-museum-of-sex"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - 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