From December 4, 2026, to January 16, 2027, the Minsky Gallery is dedicating a free exhibition to illustrator Leonor Fini. Drawings and original editions trace her dialogue with writers, from Les Fleurs du Mal to The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

To illustrate Les Fleurs du Mal, Leonor Fini pressed together sheets of paper soaked with still-damp ink, drawing out blacks and grays that no brush could produce. Charles Baudelaire was among her favorite authors. This winter, the Minsky Gallery presents the painter as a reader, she who illustrated more than fifty books without ever accepting a commission from an author who didn't interest her.

His drawings from the 1960s sit alongside original editions, from Pauline Réage's *Histoire d'O* to Gérard de Nerval's *Aurélia*, and even Jan Potocki's *Manuscript Found in Saragossa*, where twin princesses split in two, much like the story itself. The fantastic, the macabre, a taste for the theater—all the elements that would later nourish his painting—are already evident. The Morgan Library in New York, in fact, holds several pages from these drawings.

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MINSKY GALLERY
From December 4, 2026 to January 16, 2027
37 rue Vaneau, 75007 - Metro: Vaneau (Line 10)
Tue. to Sat. 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2 p.m.-7 p.m.
Free admission