Chez Fini

The Dreamlike Universe of Leonor Fini

In Leonor Fini's Paris apartment, her works in the study range from Lieu de Naissance, center, to portraits of such friends as Jean Genet, 1986, Photograph by Derry Moore, Architectural Digest

As World War II approached, the Italian-Argentine artist Leonor Fini fled to southwestern France with her friend André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She spent part of the…