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756
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Modern and Contemporary Art French Modernism
Fini, Leonor
(T…
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756
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Modern and Contemporary Art French Modernism
Fini, Leonor
(T…
See original version (German)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Modern and Contemporary Art
French Modernism
Fini, Leonor
(Two Women). From *Parallelement*. 1969. Colour lithograph on vellum. 35.5 x 25.2 cm (38.2 x 28.6 cm). Signed in pencil. A magnificent, fresh print of high quality with a rich, nuanced tonal range – the colours are vibrant against a delicate, washed tonal background.
Monod 11122. – Fini, one of the key figures of European Surrealism, created this colour lithograph as a contribution to her significant series of books for Paul Verlaine’s poetry cycle *Parallèlement* – a late work of French Symbolism that juxtaposes sensuality and spirituality, ancient poetry and decadent modernity in parallel lyrical strands. Fini translated Verlaine’s principle of duality into a pictorial primal scene: two upright female figures – one in a deep, glazed dark brown, the other in a luminous orange-ochre – who neither touch nor avoid one another, but remain in an enigmatic, almost magnetic coexistence that pervades the artist’s entire body of work. Her masterful command of the lithographic ‘lavis’ technique, through which Fini develops a rich spectrum of five to six distinguishable tonal levels from a single printing ink – ranging from fully saturated depths to the actively employed white of the paper as the lightest tonal value – bears witness to her close collaboration with the Parisian print workshops of the late 1960s. In terms of content, the print takes up the theme of female duality, which is central to Fini’s work – the figures can be interpreted as two aspects of a psychological unity, as the ego and the shadow, as the conscious and the unconscious, an iconography that the artist had continually refined since her early depictions of sphinxes in the 1940s.
(Two Women). From *Parallèlement*. 1969. Colour lithograph on vellum. Signed in pencil. A magnificent, fresh print of high quality with a rich, nuanced tonal range – the colours stand out vividly against a delicate, washed tonal background. - Fini, one of the central figures of European Surrealism, created this colour lithograph as a contribution to her significant series of books for Paul Verlaine’s poetry cycle *Parallèlement* – a late work of French Symbolism that juxtaposes sensuality and spirituality, ancient poetry and decadent modernity in parallel lyrical strands. Fini translated Verlaine’s principle of duality into a pictorial primal scene: two upright female figures – one in deep, glazed dark brown, the other in luminous orange-ochre – who neither touch nor avoid one another, but remain in an enigmatic, almost magnetic coexistence that pervades the artist’s entire oeuvre. Fini’s masterful command of the lithographic lavis technique – through which he develops a rich spectrum of five to six distinguishable tonal levels from a single ink, ranging from deeply saturated blacks to the actively employed white of the paper as the lightest tone—bears witness to his close collaboration with the Parisian print workshops of the late 1960s. In terms of content, the print takes up the theme of female duality, which is central to Fini’s work – the figures can be interpreted as two aspects of a psychological unity, as ego and shadow, as the conscious and the unconscious, an iconography that the artist had continually refined since her early depictions of sphinxes in the 1940s.
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