Sphinx Amoureux

painting by Fini

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  • Leonor Fini
    In Leonor Fini

    Sphinx Amalburga (1942; also called Sphinx Amoureux), for example, shows a male nude lying limp in the arms of a Fini-headed sphinx. The sphinx occupied her paintings throughout the 1940s in particular, and she eventually saw the sphinxes of Egypt firsthand in 1951. Fini repeatedly overturned Surrealist patriarchal conventions by…

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