LEONOR FINI (Buenos Aires, 1907 - Paris, 1996)."Portrait.Lithograph on paper.Signed and numbered in pencil.Measurements: 65 x 40 cm.Leonor Fini was a multidisciplinary artist framed within surrealism, self-taught in Paris in the thirties. A friend of Cocteau, De Chirico and Moravia, in addition to painting she was a set and costume designer for the theatre, and in the 1970s she wrote three novels. She was also an outstanding illustrator, especially of works by Poe, Aymé and the Marquis de Sade. Her work has been recognised through major retrospectives, including those held in Belgium (1965), Tokyo (1972) and Paris (1986), and is currently represented in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villa in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome and other collections in Europe, Japan and the United States.