Illustrated books and original prints
Explore Leonor Fini through original prints and illustrated editions at Breething Books. The works represented here offer two distinct encounters with her graphic art: a portfolio devoted to her color etchings and a contribution to a signed, multi-artist livre d’artiste.
Works at Breething Books
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Les Petites filles modèles (1973) — copy 113
Text and twenty color etchings on Arches, in the original red linen portfolio. Swann records each etching and the colophon as signed in pencil. Inquire for price. -
Variations sur l’imaginaire (1972) — hors-commerce copy 0
A multi-artist work with twenty color lithographs, including contributions by Fini, Man Ray, André Masson and Enrico Baj. Edited by Philippe Lebaud, with a Jacques Ebrard binding and matching box. Inquire for price.
Both works are offered intact. The individual listings distinguish their print processes, signatures, edition numbers, original presentation and recorded provenance. Please consult each listing for its condition notes and current availability.
Collecting Fini in book and portfolio form
A signed etching, a lithograph and a printed book illustration are different objects. For an illustrated edition, the text, limitation page, sequence of prints and original housing are all part of the work. Edition numbers and signatures should be considered alongside completeness and the condition of both the sheets and their portfolio or binding.
Our listings identify what is documented by the source catalogue and what remains to be confirmed in a current condition report. Selected auction-source photographs illustrate these particular copies; they are not a substitute for a full collation.
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Background: an etching from Les Petites filles modèles, copy 113, photographed for the Swann auction record.