Leonor Fini - The Virtues of Rebellion New York Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    María Félix, Mexico City
    Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexico City (by descent from the above)
    María Félix: La Doña, Christie's, New York, July 18, 2007, lot 186
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Georges Poisson, La Femme dans la peinture française moderne, Paris, 1955, no. 86, p. 90 (illustrated, p. 86; titled as Portrait de Maria Felix)
    Eugenio Aguirre, Ricardo Noriega, Marco Antonio Belmar and Daniel Nierma, María y sus pintores, Mexico City, 1992
    Leonor Fini. "La Vie Idéale", exh. cat., CFM Gallery, New York, 1997, p. 17 (illustrated; titled and dated as Maria Felix, 1954)
    Octavio Paz, María Félix: Una raya en el agua, 1997
    Richard Overstreet and Neil Zukerman, Leonor Fini. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings: Volume II, Zurich, 2021, no. 514, p. 371(illustrated, p. 370)

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Portrait de María Félix II (Detrás de la puerta)

oil on canvas
45 5/8 x 22 1/2 in. (116 x 57.2 cm)
Painted circa 1954.

Price On Request

The Virtues of Rebellion