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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Leonor Fini

(Buenos Aires 1907 - Parigi 1996)

Correspondence, 1940-1990

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 15.000 - 18.000

Sold

€ 17.620

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Extensive correspondence with Leonor Fini and with other intellectuals of her circle. A full-bodied set of letters with various drawings, tickets, telegrams and leaflets, including a long text written by Fini herself, signs of deep and lasting friendship between Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 30 August 1907 - Paris , January 18, 1996) and Fabrizio Clerici (Milan, May 15, 1913 - Rome, June 7, 1993). The letters date from the forties to the nineties and describe the life, work and acquaintances of Leonor Fini and his relationship with his friend Fabrizio Clerici from Rome, when he resided in Palazzo Altieri, on the Isola del Giglio, in Milan and Paris and Nonza in Corsica.

To describe only the consistency: 81 letters without envelope; 96 letters with envelopes; 45 circulated postcards; 19 circulated envelopes; 1 telegram; 1 card with design; 6 cards.

 


Specialist Notes

In addition to the Clerici-Fini correspondence, the lot also includes: & nbsp; Max Enst & nbsp; (a postcard); Paul Éluard & nbsp; (a postcard); Leonora Carrington (a postcard); Elsa Morante (a letter in 3 pp + a postcard); Kostantin Yelensky (extensive correspondence); Stanislao Lepri (extensive correspondence) Sforzino Sforza; Roland Petit; Pavel Tchelitchew & amp; Charles Henri Ford (extensive correspondence); Peter Lindamood (letter of 4 typewritten sheets + another letter from C. Serbanne); Eugéne Berman (4 postcards + a telegram + a leaflet + two letters without envelope + 25 letters with envelope); André Pieyrede Mandiargues (two letters with envelope + one without envelope + letter from Clerici; Federico Veneziani (5 postcards); André Ostier (two postcards); Giorgio Strehler (with Paolo Grassi. Documents on the Piccolo di Milano 4 telegrams from Clerici + three minutes tissue paper by Clerici + typescript by Clerici + five letters and four telegrams & nbsp; by Grassi + three letters by Strehler).
In the lot there are also two works by & nbsp; Pavel Tchelitchew :
Study for Phenomena, 1936
ink on paper, 270 x 210 mm. Inscriptions on recto: & nbsp; "Paris dec. 1967 this drawing by Pavel Tchelitchew gave it to Fabrizio Leonor & nbsp; [Leonor Fini]" Rome, Eros Renzetti collection - Provenance: Fabrizio Clerici
This is a study for the well-known painting by Tchelitchew Phenomena 1936-1938 oil on canvas in the Tretyakoff collection, Moscow. The painting depicts many personalities and friends of the Russian painter, including Leonor Fini.

Heads, & nbsp; 1950. 26,5x 21,5 cm.