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Chelsea's Most Exciting Figurative Art Gallery 236 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New
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Dithyrambe Dithyrambe: an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility is one of a series of Sphinx paintings, oil on paper on canvas, 30 x 21.25, that are iconic in Finis oeuvre. The vibrant orange backgrounds for Finis mythical alter-egos evoke the fire that often surrounds the hybrid creature. Adorned in beautiful Art Nouveau jewelry, the normally frightening demeanor of the Sphinx is transmuted into what could be mistaken for a benign, desirable figure. A sphinx from this series was my first introduction to Finis work. It holds a fascination for me that is inexplicable. Fini was first engaged by the sphinx image in Trieste where she saw a monumental one in stone that sits on a jetty at Miramar, the castle where the Emperor Maximillian III and Carlotta lived before they went to Mexico. I once gave Leonor a photo-book comprised of many images of sphinx that I discovered in my travels. She kept it by her bed and mentioned it almost every time we saw each other. One could say that the sphinx was the seminal tie between us. Neil Zukerman 2010
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of figurative fine art paintings, sculptures and original graphics.
Contemporary symbolism at its apex in the traditions of Bosch, the Italian
Renaissance, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, the Viennese and German Secession
and the symbolist movements with an edge of surrealism. |