[Léonor Fini Wearing Stocking Over Face]
Henri Cartier-Bresson
ca. 1931 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs
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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.
- Artist
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Date
- ca. 1931
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
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