• 74 pages
• 34 illustrations in color and b/w
• book size 7" x 5" (17.7 x 12.7 cm.)
• published 2005, Umberto Allemandi, Torino
• Volume 14 of Amici della Scala
• hardbound miniature first edition with illustrated boards
• text in Italian
• includes essay by author Vittoria Crespi Morbio La gatta dagli occhi di febbre / The Cat with Feverish Eyes
• Condition: new unread copy with light shelf wear and a corner bump

One of the very few existing texts on the artist's theatrical work.

Lovely catalog in miniature format for the Nov 2005 exhibition focusing on Fini's designs for productions of ballets and operas at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

An extremely beautiful woman with a magnetic, dangerous charm, Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires 1908-Paris 1996) strides into 20th-century art, regal, solitary and sulky like a pedigreed cat, and cat-women will be the most frequent presence in the surreal, imaginative bestiary of her painting beside bird-women and flower-women. Introduced to New York by De Chirico when she was eighteen, worshipped by Éluard, photographed in a thousand situations revealing her delightful egocentrism, Leonor is a painter with an unmistakable style: her dreams and erotic imagination swept like a thrill over the stage of La Scala between 1951 and 1963 with the music of Cimarosa, Mozart and Jean Françaix. --(translated from the back cover)