Leonor Fini - Self-portrait with a Scorpion [1938]
All self-portraits are, to varying extents, spectacles of autobiography and for Leonor Fini this was no exception; this work is an iconic personal statement by the artist and an exploration of her own artistic power. In this captivating self-portrait, painted a few years after her first major exhibition in New York and as she rose to become a figure of increasing profile within Paris café society, Fini takes up her position as an established artist both as an individual and in complex relationship to the Surrealist artists with whom she was involved and alongside whom she often exhibited. #92Gallery