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Léonor Fini was born in 1908 in Buenos Aires in Argentina from an Argentinian father and an Italian mother.
She lived with his mother in the northern Italian city of Trieste.
Fini starts to paint very early, she pursued art with passion, determination, and conviction. She visited museums regularly, and studied renaissance, manierism and romanticism masters.
At the tender age of seventeen, Fini had her first exhibit in a Trieste gallery.
She was only eighteen when Fini arrived in Paris. There she met Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, René Magritte, and Brauner whose introduced Fini to the Surrealist Group.
She developed friendships with the women members of the movement and participated in surrealist exhibits.
Leonor Fini refused to join the group and also denied being a surrealist but she shared however their taste of the fantasy, the oniric symbolism and she transposed these into her works.
After WWII, Fini's career expanded.
She also designed theatre decorations and costumes, and did book illustrations for Le Marquis de Sade, Edgar Poe, Baudelaire or Shakespeare.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world.
Leonor Fini continued to paint till the end of her life. She died on January 18th, 1996 in Paris.