la femme surréaliste

- Leonor Fini -

creatively eccentric, scandalously sophisticated & a passionate multi-talented personality
one of my favourite artists

In the Shadow of the Dawn, 1984

Sphinx

Au Hasard des Vents profonds, 1992

Innocence & Demon, 1983

Lady with Skull

They Like to Dress, 1948

in Achille Funi's studio, Milan, 1930

Travelers at Rest, 1978

Brigitte Bardot & Leonor Fini en costumes 

pour le Bal Surréaliste du Château de Ferrières, Paris, 1972

Histoire d'O by Pauline Réage, 1975 

illustrations by Leonor Fini

Rogomeulec, 1978

Portrait of Méret Oppenheim, 1938

Leonor Fini & André Pieyre by Henri Cartier Bresson, 1933

Black Man and Woman Monkey, 1942

Harper's Bazaar cover - June 1947

illustration by Leonor Fini

Fini with tiger

Femme costumée, 1938

Love without Reservations

Elsa Schiaparelli's Shocking perfume 

bottle design by Fini, 1937

Untitled Visage, c.1949

La Tentation, 1929

Les Deux Cranes, 1943

Volens Nolens

Gala, Salvador Dali, Leonor Fini & Andre Pieyre, 1940

Chimera in the Evening

by Eddy Brofferio, Corse, c.1965

The Guardian

Self-Portrait

Corset Chair, 1939

Ceremonie, 1960

c.1925

Etude pour The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Extreme Nuit, 1977

untitled (portrait of a woman), c.1975

c.1960

Heliodora, 1964

by Erwin Blumenfeld, Paris, c.1938

Inutile liberté, 1985

Federico Fellini & Leonor Fini, Paris, 1970

by Eddy Brofferio, Paris, 1966

Cortege, c.1960

Pensive Woman, 1954

sources: here, here & here