INSPIRATION: Leonor Fini
1-10-2015 The Argentine-French artist LEONOR FINI (1908-1996) was
unconventional and uncompromising. She gained a foothold in the male-
dominated Surrealist movement. A female Dalì she was called. A nickname
that does its deficit because she had her own unique style: sophisticated,
pronounced erotic with references to death. Besides painter, she was also
a designer of ballet and film productions, illustrator of bibliophile book
editions (eg from Baudelaire, Sade, Verlaine, William Shakespeare and
Edgar Allan Poe) and wrote three novels. However she was sometimes
more famous for her independent and free lifestyle than her art: traditional
marriage meant nothing to her. She preferred a ménage à trois. After her
death she fell into obscurity, but in recent years she regains recognition.