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Lendemain de fête

Lendemain de fête

The walls in this room are covered in a limited reissue of a wallpaper design by surrealist artist Leonor Fini. Her original gouache paintings had been converted into

a repeating pattern, produced as printed wallpaper by a Parisian wallpaper manufacturer in 1949. In the pattern, you can find all kinds of food scraps, including apple peel, eggshells, oyster shells and fish bones: surrealist symbols for major life themes like birth, death and sexuality.

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Title
Lendemain de fête
Dating
1948
Object type
behang
Object number
35906

Léonor Fini

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Technique
behang
Dimensions
Acquisition
aankoop (2023)
Acquisition credit
aangekocht dankzij de Van Baaren Stichting
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Rights
Centraal Museum Utrecht / foto Gert Jan van Rooij © Pictoright