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Art critic Catherine Styles McLeod writes that Fini's: "art is the crack in the mirror, the edge of the equation, the dream of tremendous import half-grasped on awakening, whose meaning dissolves with daylight". With these words she emphasizes the intangible quality at play in these later works and highlights the fact that their actual significance remains mysterious.
Throughout a long career, the canvases of Leonor Fini's journey between the pains of despair and the serenity of enlightenment but remain polished with eroticism at every extreme. Driven by passion, liberty, and …