Satiricon

Satiricon  is original colored lithography, realized in 1970 by  Leonor Fini, an   Argentine-Italian painter who spent her artistic career in France and was associated with the Surrealist movement.

In very good condition.

From series "Satiricon de Petron".

The artwork represents a portrait of a man through confident strokes by bright and harmonic colors. The artwork here is resembling of the Roman wall painting, Romans used wall paintings as a way to open up and lighten their space and they used frescoes, and also Pompeian wall painting style, p whee painters became so skilled at imitating certain marbles that the large, rectangular slabs were rendered on the wall marbled and veined, just like real pieces of stone.  Leonor Fini (1907-1966)  was an emblematic painter, illustrator, writer, scene painter and draftswoman; one of her favorite subjects was human bodies painted with hybrid shapes, as animals, plants or minerals. Her subjects are neither naked nor dressed, their body is crossed by nervous tissues, veins and blood vessels.