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[Léonor Fini Wearing Stocking Over Face]

ca. 1931
Not on view
The photograph represents the surrealist artist Léonor Fini with a stocking over her face. Although probably born of high-spirited conviviality, the picture remains disturbing: the apparition hovers with the disagreeable insistence of a nightmare one cannot shake.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Léonor Fini Wearing Stocking Over Face]
  • Artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, Chanteloup-en-Brie 1908–2004 Montjustin)
  • Date: ca. 1931
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 23.6 x 26.0 cm (9 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1100.130
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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