Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

259 c LEONOR FINI Retrato de Tamara Toumanova . Brush and ink and watercolor on wove paper, circa 1947. 350x250 mm; 13 3 / 4 x9 3 / 4 inches. Signed in ink, lower right recto. Gifted by the artist to Tamara Toumanova; the estate of Tamara Toumanova; thence by descent to private collection, Los Angeles. Fini (1907-1996) was an Argentinian artist, most closely associated with Surrealism, and was also the scenery and costume designer for the Paris Opera Ballet’s production of Symphony in C , premiered 1947, in which choreographer George Balanchine created a starring role for the ballerina Toumanova. Like Fini herself, the dancer was known in the Parisian Surrealist circle of the 1940s and associated with artists Salvador Dalí (see lots 459-468), Joan Miró (see lots 436-457) and Pavel Tchelitehew. [3,000/5,000] 260 c JOSÉ LUIS CUEVAS Desnudo Sentado . Pen and ink and wash with crayon on paper, circa 1955. 268x205 mm; 10 1 / 2 8 1 / 8 inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto. With— Retrato de Rimbaud , pen and ink on paper, circa 1960. 158x70 mm; 6 1 / 4 x2 3 / 4 inches. With the artist’s ink stamp signature, upper right recto. [1,000/1,500] 259 260