The Argentine-Italian painter Leonor Fini is often considered to have been a surrealist—yet she rejected an official invitation to join the group as she didn’t agree with André Breton’s view of woman as muse. Her erotically-charged, powerful paintings are showing later this week at the Museum of Sex in New York, in the solo exhibition Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire, 1930-1990. “I always imagined that I would have a life very different than the one imagined for me,” she once said, “but I understood from a very early age that I would have to revolt in order to make that life.”
