Leonor Fini and Her Contemporaries: Surrealism Through the Eyes of Women Artists. 2001 Fine SC

Chadwick, Whitney; Zukerman, Neil; Frey, Raman. San Francisco, California, Weinstein Gallery, 2001. 

English Language, Fine, SC, 4to, 8 1/2" x 11", 64 pp. 

Stiff glossy white perfectbound wraps, black lettering to covers and spine, featuring Leonor Fini's 1938/39 painting L'entracte de l'apotheose to front cover and her 1960 painting Penelope to the back, covers and text block clean, tightly bound and unmarked throughout, showing no visible shelf wear. 64 pp. replete with full-color images of paintings, drawings, and lithographs by Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Stella Snead, and Dorothea Tanning. One black-and-white portrait photograph of Leonor Fini to front cover verso. Foreword by Whitney Chadwick, essays by Neil Zukerman and Raman Frey. Published in conjunction with a 2001 exhibition of masterworks by women surrealists held at Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco, California. From Chadwick's Foreword: "...[I]f the contradictions between surrealism's liberationist goals and its reiteration of patriarchal ideology in the area of sexual politics - whether consciously or unconsciously enacted - remain problematic for many of us, Surrealism's significance for women artists since the 1930s seems to me undeniable today." From the private collection of art historian, author, professor, and lecturer on women artists and surrealism, Whitney Chadwick.