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Tristan und Isolde
For The Metropolitan Opera Collection
Oil on Miraflage
25.5" x 39.5"
1978

For the The Metropolitan Opera’s New York City 1978 season, a gentleman named Stefan Lion suggested to the management that they ask eight internationally famous artists to design posters for each of that year’s operas. Leonor Fini was chosen to interpret “Tristan und Isolde,” by Richard Wagner. Other artists included Larry Rivers, Marino Marini, Jamie Wyeth, Richard Lindner, David Hockney, Paul Wunderlich and George Tooker.

Fini painted a beautiful miraflaged mixed-media oil and oil-stick on paper on canvasas her contribution. Portraying the star-crossed lovers as androgynous portraits; one with eyes closed and one with eyes open, she captured the melancholy of their plight while glorifying their love.

The painting first came to my attention when Mr. Lion loaned it to the gallery for the Leonor Fini La Vie Idéal retrospective in 1997, the year after her death. When it came time to return it, I was unable to do so. It had so entranced me that I purchased it rather then give it back.

Neil Zukerman 2010

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