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LEONOR FINI Retrato de Tamara Toumanova.
Brush and ink and watercolor on wove paper, circa 1947. 350x250 mm; 13 3/4x9 3/4 inches. Signed in ink, lower right recto.
Gifted by the artist to Tamara Toumanova; thence by descent to private collection, Los Angeles.
Fini (1907-1996) was an Argentinian artist, most closely associated with Surrealism, and was also the scenery and costume designer for the Paris Opera Ballet's production of Symphony in C premiered 1947, in Paris, in which choreographer George Balanchine created a starring role for the ballerina Toumanova. Like Fini herself, the dancer was known in the Parisian Surrealist circle of the 1940s and associated with artists Salvador Dalí (see lots 459-468), Joan Miró (see lots 436-457) and Pavel Tchelitehew.
