Leonor Fini

...neon pink) is bold and intense. It takes its name from the shade used on the box of the perfume called Shocking, designed by Leonor Fini for the Surrealist fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1937. This in turn was inspired by the...

In this article: Elsa Schiaparelli, Tamarisk, Cherry Blossom, Cartier, North America, and Washington, D.C

...Miller's reputation has been secured by the efforts of her son. Others, like Fini, await rediscovery. 'Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini' (Vendome Press, GBP60), by Peter Webb, is available from Telegraph Books (0844 871 1515;...

In this article: Paris, Jean Cocteau, Margot Fonteyn, Dora Maar, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, and Brigitte Bardot

...of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis). He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini. His book La Marge was made into a film by Walerian Borowczyk. The 1967 novel La Marge won the Prix...

In this article: Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, April FitzLyon, Walerian Borowczyk, Story of O, and Paris

...well among fans, was not well marketed by Elektra. Jet featured a biographical song about bisexual Argentine surrealist painter Leonor Fini. In the same year, her friend Jeff Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River at age thirty. An interview...

In this article: Elektra, Katell Keineg, New York City, Natalie Merchant, Dublin, Cardiff, and The Song Remains the Same

...sculptor (b.1925 ). 11 February - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (b.1902 ). 18 January - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (b.1908 ). 28 January - Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist...

In this article: Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize, and William Robinson

...Lynes, Lincoln Kirstein, Orson Welles, George Balanchine, and E. E. Cummings. Visiting friends from abroad included Cecil Beaton, Leonor Fini, George Hoyningen-Huene, and Salvador Dali. He published his first full-length book of poems,...

In this article: Ruth Ford, Pavel Tchelitchew, Djuna Barnes, Charles Henri Ford, Parker Tyler, Paris, Nightwood, Gertrude Stein, and Man Ray

...the writer and composer Paul Bowles, through which he met Tennessee Williams and Leonard Bernstein. In 1949 through the painter Leonor Fini he was introduced to the choreographer and ballet dancer Roland Petit; out of this grew the ballet...

In this article: Raffaello de Banfield, Torquato Tasso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Bowles, Trieste, Tennessee Williams, London, and Dante Alighieri

...very interested in what they were wearing," says Wood. "There's a wonderful correspondence between Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenheim because they often made their own clothes. They are constantly talking about what they're wearing and how...

In this article: Elsa Schiaparelli, Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim, Art Gallery of Ontario, Psychology, Ideology, Vogue, Cecil Beaton, and Horst P. Horst

...establishing the reputations of the enigmatic Russian flapper Tamara de Lempicka (not included in "Women Artists") and Argentine-born Leonor Fini (described in a recent Italian catalog, noted below, as bellissima-in his time, Edmund Wilson...

In this article: Linda Nochlin, Mary Cassatt, Agostino Tassi, Orazio Gentileschi, Giorgio Vasari, Susanna, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, and Caravaggio

...scarves. At one end of the spectrum are some perhaps over-familiar faces, including Frida Kahlo. But how much do you know of Leonor Fini, for example, one of the most flamboyantly potent female artists of the mid-20th century - outspoken,...

In this article: Lee Miller, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Roland Petit, Dora Maar, Man Ray, and Paris