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Leonor Fini (August 30, 1907, Buenos Aires—January 18, 1996, Paris) was an Argentine surrealist painter. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...
She was born in Buenos Aires to an Italian mother and an Argentinian father. Her mother left her father before Leonor's first birthday. She took the child to her home in Trieste, Italy, where LF was disguised as a boy whenever she left her house for the next five years in order to foil kidnap attempts by her father. For other uses, see Buenos Aires (disambiguation). ...
After leaving Trieste at the age of 17 to paint a family's portraits in Milano (where she had her first painting exhibition) she relocated to Paris in either 1931 or 1932. There, she became acquainted with, among many others,Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Picasso,André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and [[Salvador Dalí. She traveled around Europe by car with de Mandiargues and Cartier-Bresson where she was photographed nude in a swimming pool by Cartier-Bresson. His photograph of Leonor sold in 2007 for $305,000 - the highest price paid at auction for one of his works to that date. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...
Paul Éluard was the nom de plume of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 - November 18, 1952), a French poet. ...
Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in 1948. ...
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Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson taken by George Platt Lynes. ...
A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ...
André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909 - 1991) was a French writer. ...
She painted portraits of Jean Genet, Anna Magnani, Jacques Audiberti, Alida Valli, Schlumberger and Suzanne Flon as well as many other celebrities and wealthy visitors to Paris. While working for Elsa Schiaparelli she designed the flacon for the perfume, "Shocking," which became the top selling perfume for the House of Schiaparelli. She designed costumes and decorations for theater, ballet and opera, including the first ballet performed by Roland Petit's Ballet de Paris, "Les Demoiselles de la nuit," featuring a young Margot Fonteyn. This was a payment of gratitude for Fini's having been instrumental in finding the funding for the new ballet company. She also designed the costumes for two films, Renato Castellani's "Romeo and Juliet"(1954) and John Huston's "A Walk with Love and Death," (1968) which starred 18 year old Anjelica Huston and Moishe Dyan's son, Assaf. Jean Genet (French IPA: ) (December 19, 1910) – April 15, 1986), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. ...
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Italian actress, with stage experience. ...
Jacques Audiberti (March 25, 1899 - July 9, 1965) was a French author. ...
Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress. ...
Schlumberger Limited is the worlds largest oilfield services corporation operating in approximately 80 countries, with about 70,000 people of 140 nationalities. ...
On the cover of Time magazine: August 13, 1934. ...
Roland Petit (January 13, 1924) is a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble near Paris, France. ...
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, (18 May 1919, Reigate, Surrey, England - 21 February 1991 Panama City, Panama), the English assoluta, was considered the greatest ballerina of her time. ...
Romeo and Juliet in the famous balcony scene by Ford Madox Brown For other uses, see Romeo and Juliet (disambiguation). ...
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ...
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. ...
She once said, "A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend." She then proceeded to do so. Stanislao Lepri, an Italian diplomat when she met him, left the diplomatic corp to live with her and painted. Approximately five years later Constantin Jelenski, a Polish writer joined them.
In the 1970s, she wrote three novels, "Rogomelec," "Moumour, Contes pour enfants velu" and "Oneiropompe." Her friends included Jean Cocteau, Giorgio de Chirico, and Alberto Moravia, Fabrizio Clerci and most of the other artists and writers inhabiting or visiting Paris. She illustrated many works by the great authors and poets, including Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire and Shakespeare, as well as texts by new writers. She was very generous with her illustrations and donated many drawings to writers to help them get published. She is, perhaps, best known for her graphic illustrations for "Histoire d'O. Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ...
Giorgio de Chirico in 1936 photographed by Carl Van Vechten. ...
Alberto Moravia. ...
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ...
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Cover of a French edition of Histoire dO featuring Corinne Clery Histoire dO (English title: Story of O ) is a sadomasochistic novel by French author Pauline Réage, revealed a few years before her death as being the pen name of Anne Desclos (1907-1998), who also wrote...
It has been said about her that she is the only artist to paint women without apology. Many of her paintings feature strong, beautiful women (many times resembling herself) in ceremonial or provocative situations. Men are often portrayed as lithe figures who are under the protection of her females. The sphinx and cats play major parts in her paintings, as does the theme of 'the double.' She was equally adept at etching, drawing, watercolor and oil painting. She lived with many cats; up to a total of 23 at one time. The illness of one of her cats could send her into a deep depression.
A biographical song about Leonor Fini's life is featured on Welsh artist Katell Keineg's 1997 second album, 'Jet'. Sir Thomas Malory wrote the most famous fictional biography of the Middle Ages with Le Morte dArthur about the life of King Arthur. ...
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Katell Keineg (born February 1965), is a Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter, based in Dublin and New York. ...
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