Voyageurs en repos (Travelers at Rest), oil on canvas, 26.5” x 33.5”, is one of my favorite paintings. I became involved and enraptured by it during a 1987 stay with Leonor. She would spend each morning in her atelier working; her time that she jealously guarded and I would have tea in the living room while waiting for her to join me. When not catching up on the latest gossip with her housekeeper, I would sit and stare at the painting.

One of the mesmerizing qualities in Fini’s paintings is the movement that inhabits them. It is like seeing something out of one’s peripheral vision; something that moves within the painting causing it to be ever changing and alive. I find a sadness in the work…but also a peacefulness that transcends the sorrow. Ultimately, it leaves me at rest. In Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini, Peter Webb, Vendome Press, New York City, 2009, the author, states, “She always refused to sell the painting because she thought of it as representing herself and Kot ‘eternally together.’”