Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires 1907 - Parigi 1996) "Portrait d'Italo Svevo" 1928 oil on panel cm 54x45.5 Signed and dated 1928 lower left Provenance Bennetti Collection, Trieste Private collection, Trieste Exhibitions "II Esposizione del Sindacato Fascista Regionale delle Belle Arti e del Circolo artistico di Trieste" Padiglione Municipale giardino pubblico, Trieste, Fall 1928 ‘’Artisti triestini dei tempi di Italo Svevo‘’ Castello di San Giusto, Trieste, 21 July – 31 August 1979, p. 23 ill. in catalogue ‘’Trouver Trieste, portraits pour une ville, fortunes d’un port adriatique‘’ La Conciergerie, Paris, November 1985 – June 1986 “Leonor Fini: L’Italienne de Paris” Revoltella Museum, Trieste, 4 July – 27 September 2009, pp. 61, 68, 103 ill. in colour in catalogue Bibliography E. Jaloux, P. Eluard, A. Moravia, G. Hugnet, C. H. Ford, M. Praz, A. Savinio “Leonor Fini” Rome, Sansoni, 1945 K. Ogata “A New Species which Violates Boundaries. Leonor Fini” Tokyo, Toshindo Publishing Co., 2006, p. 13 P. Webb “Métamorphoses d’un art” Paris, Editions Imprimerie Nationale and Arles: Actes Sud, 2007 P. Webb, “Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini”, New York, The Vendome Press, 2009 M. Masau Dan and V. Strukelj, “Leonor Fini”, Florence, Giunti Editore, 2011 R. Overstreet, N. Zukerman, “Leonor Fini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings”, Zurich, Ed. Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021, Vol. II, p. 257, n. 31, colour ill. (dated 1929)