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Leonor Fini
Oil Paintings
1931 - 1987

La Victime est reine (The Victim is Queen) is one of the most enigmatic of Fini’s ‘Mineral Period’ paintings. The title alone suggests a dichotomy; which is better, to be the victim or the queen, or is it that being queen requires subjugation to the role of victim?

Fini’s choices over the years pose the probability that she knew that she was both the center of her own universe, but also, subject to what others attributed to her. Not giving in to what was expected of her as a woman, as an artist or as an individual became her norm.

Did she do things solely for effect? My knowledge of her says, ‘Yes she did.’ However, all of her actions were governed by her own view of what she wanted to convey to the outside world. The queen is trapped by the very act of being queen.
Oil on canvas, 39” x 25.5”.

 

 

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