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The artist and designer Leonor Fini never considered herself a Surrealist.
They were too sexist.
Fini is one ofseveralfemale Surrealists just now receiving their due.
But she never considered herself to be an official member of the group.
Attitudes at the time she passed away, in 1996, were quite negative and condescending.
The sphinx is a recurring motif in Finis work.
Fini interprets the sphinx as the heroine of the story.
I would like to think of myself as androgynous.
Christian Dior, a gallerist at the time, exhibited her works before leaving art for fashion.
She counted Surrealist painters Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim, Salvador Dali, and Max Ernst as close friends.
Finis art, for all of its subversive thematic exploration, aided her rise to fame during her lifetime.
Now, it has finally begun to receive its much-deserved credit from the art world at large.
Echoes of Finis legacy reverberate across todays fashion and design landscape.
