• 176 pages
• extensively illustrated in color and b/w
• book size 10⅝" x 9⅛" (27 x 23.2 cm.)
• published 2011, Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature, Poland
• softbound with fold out color pictorial boards cover
• text in Polish
• author Dr. Anna Lipa
• curator Aleksandra Kaiper-Miszulowicz
• Condition: new copy

The official catalog for the major museum exhibition held Oct 14-Dec 30, 2011 at the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, Poland.

The lavishly illustrated catalogue includes a selection of photographs from Fini's exceptionally extensive private archive, reproductions of paintings by herself and other artists associated with the Surrealist movement, manuscripts, documents, and numerous quotations from letters, books, and literary works by the exhibition's subjects and their friends. Two cover versions were designed for the catalogue.

The exhibition is divided into eight segments consisting of works by Leonor Fini and works "from Leonor and Kot's circle of friends": Jan Lebenstein , Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Stanislao Lepri, Hans Bellmer, among others, as well as small paintings by Kot, who called himself a "Sunday painter". The exhibition is complemented by enlargements of unique photographs, mostly from the Leonor Fini Archives in Paris, largely previously unpublished.

Contents:
Jaroslaw Klejnocki - Foreword
Helene Zaleski - Foreword
Anna Lipa - Double Portrait
Anna Lipa - Black Sun by Leonor Fini (in collaboration with Jan Gondowicz)
Wojciech Karpinski - The Cat's Smile: A Meeting with Konstanty A. Jelenski
Andrzej Wat - Black Leonora and Silver Konstanty
Neil Zukerman - Memories (translated by Magdalena Iwinska)
Malgorzata Maria Grabczewska - Immobilized Moments of Your Own Theatre: On the Photographic Creation of Leonor Fini
Piotr Szarota - Konstanty and Leonor: A Family Portrait in Several Interiors
Malwina Domagala - Konstanty A. Jelenski's Cabinet of Curiosities. A Collection of Memorabilia at the Museum of Literature in Warsaw
Édouard Roditi - Propos sur l'art. A Word about Art. Interview with Leonor Fini (translated by Anna Szczepanek)
Anna Lipa - A Calendar of Leonor Fini's Life and Work
Aleksandra Kaiper-Miszulowicz - Calendar of the life of Konstanty A. Jelenski
List of objects at the exhibition
List of photographs in the catalogue