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Spaightwood Galleries
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View from the corner of Maple and Main St (also known as Highway 140).
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Entrance, featuring our new front door.
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Turning to the left, we offer six unique works: a gouache by Eva Gonzales, Manet's only pupil; a water color by Nataliya Goncharova, one of the Russian avant garde who seetled in Paris in the teens and remained their for the rest of her long life; two pastels by Marie Laurencin; a drawing (not for sale) by Frida Kahlo of her sister Christina done shorty after Frida discovered that Christina was having an affair with Frida's husband, Diego Rivera; and a watercolor by Leonor Fini. Late in the show, we added a very beautiful 19th-century Italian miniature of a Venetian noblewoman by Luisa Corsi.
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Luisa Corsi (Italian, active later 19th century), Portrait of a Venetian Noblewoman. Original gouache on ivory, 1872. A beautiful miniature on very thin ivory in the original frame. This lovely work by an unknown artist suggests a milieu of "accomplished" upperclass women learning to draw and paint under the tutelage of a professional artist. Signed and dated in goache along the lower left edge. Image size: 110x88mm (approximately 4-3/8x3.5 inches). Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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The view from the loft showing the left side of the exhibit (details below)
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Leonor Fini (Argentina, 1908-1996, France), La Leçon de Rhetorique. Original color serigraph, c. 1976. Edition unknown (c. 250 impressions). Ours is one of a deluxe suite of 100, signed and numbered in Roman numerals (LXVII/C). There was also an unsigned edition published in the livre d'artiste Leçons. Venus, the goddess of beauty, who is rather gaudily dressed, is depicted teaching Cupid, the god of Love, how to deal with mortals. Image size: 407x406mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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These four works (plus one in the next bay) all come from a deluxe portfolio devoted to the female rulers and magicians of the Arabian Nights, Sultanes et Magiciennes des Milles et Une Nuits / Sultans and magicians from the 1001 Nights. 275 signed and numbered impressions of Rives with the embossed cat published by Editions Galerie Carpentier, Paris. Fini was an insistent alternative to the male artists involved in surrealism, most of whom tended to subject women in their art to the gaze of the males, including the artist and the viewers of the art. For full details on this series, please click here.
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These work on the left comes from Sultanes et Magiciennes des Milles et Une Nuits / Sultans and magicians from the 1001 Nights. 275 signed and numbered impressions of Rives with the embossed cat published by Editions Galerie Carpentier, Paris. The other two works are a pair of portraits done almost a year apart in which the same woman is posed in from the the same screen and the variant colors of the fabrics of the screen and the clothes plus a varying of the scale of the works diminish or augment the power of the subject.
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Leonor Fini (Argentina, 1908-1996, France), Retour de voyage I. Original color lithograph, 1985. 275 signed and numbered impressions. A woman sits on an invisible cushion in an elaborate gown before a fabric screen wearing an elaborate turban. Fini here invites us to consider Woman in several roles: goddess, ruler, priest, mage. This is one of two prints on this theme that Fini made in 1985. Image size: 758x560mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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Leonor Fini (Argentina, 1908-1996, France), Retour de voyage II. Original color lithograph, 1985. 275 signed and numbered impressions. A woman sits on an invisible cushion in an elaborate gown before a fabric screen wearing an elaborate turban. Fini here invites us to consider Woman in several roles: goddess, ruler, priest, mage. This is one of two prints on this theme that Fini made in 1985. Image size: 758x560mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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For full information about the three sphinxes, click here. For Vespertilla, the harpy (top left), see below. For L'etincelle / The shooting star, a portrait of Arianne Lancell, Fini's friend and publisher, see here.
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Leonor Fini (Argentina, 1908-1996, France), Vespertilla. Original color lithograph, 1970. 195 signed and numbered impressions. In classical mythology and epic poetry, the harpies were underwold goddesses, avengers of faults against women in particular. Inevitably they were described as disgusting creatures who befouled the food of their victims. Fini's harpy combines the upper body of a beautiful woman with stubby wings instead of arms, with the bottom of a raptor whose large savage claws suggest more direct pssibilities of punishment. Image size: 695x518mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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Dimanche après-midi / Sunday afternoon. Original color serigraph, c. 1980. 100 signed & numbered impressions. Fini adored cats and lived surrounded by large numbers of them. This is a version of Fini's favorite painting which travelled with her from Paris to St. Dye every year. Right corner slightly chipped. Image size: 733x542mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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On the left wall of the former sanctuary, we have five more works by Leonor Fini. For the two on the left and the one on the bottom right, click here. For Les trois amis on the top right and the woman with fiery hair beneath her on the right, click here. The final Fini, Le train blanc / The White Train, considered one of her most surreal compositions, is barely visible over the door at extreme right, may be found here. It is an original color lithograph, 1966. 250 signed and numbered impressions. Image size: 387x577mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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Next to the door, we find a hand colored etching by Baroness Hilla von Rebay (Germany, 1889-1978 USA), an importnat non-objective artist (she didn't like the term "Abstract Art"), adviser to Solomon Guggenheim, and first director of the Guggenheim Museum. She was in the habit of printing up hand-colored etchings as gifts for friends during the holiday season, of which this is one. She was recently the subject of an important show at the Guggenheim which generated The Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenehim (NY: Guggenheim Museum, 2005). After its New York opening, the show moved on to the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and the Schlossmuseum Murnau, and concluded at the Guggenheim, Berlin. Image size: 125x173mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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Paired with this piece is a drypoint by Berthe Morisot, one of the French Impressionists and the primary organizer of their collective shows: Jeune fille au repose (Johnson 83: 12). Original drypoint, c. 1887. As published in Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London, 1910). A very good impression with the cancellation punches. Image size: 73x120mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (1-508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to spaightwood@gmail.com. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
Spaightwood Galleries is located at 120 Main St (aka Highway 140) in Upton MA at the corner of Main St and Maple Ave in a rehabilitated Unitarian Church. For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to six and other times by arrangement.
Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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