Stanislas Lepri - Artist Info

About Stanislas Lepri

  • Biography from Doyle New York

    The Surrealist painter Stanislas Lepri was born in Rome and moved to Paris in 1950 where he became involved with the artist Leonor Fini. Lepri designed sets and costumes for Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Paris.
  • Biography from Bonhams Paris

    Stanislas Lepri biographical photo
    Born in the house of "marquis Lepri marquis of Rota" Member of the Roman nobility, Stanislao Lepri was the Italian consul for the Principality of Monaco. He moved to Paris in 1940 where he befriended artists such as Picasso, Ernst, and Breton. Their influence can be seen in his later works.

    The following year he met Leonor Fini, and in 1943 when he was called back to Rome she went with him and stayed until the end of the World War II. In 1946, they returned to Paris and Lepri abandoned his diplomatic career to become a painter. Shortly after, Fabrizio Clerici introduced Fini to Polish writer Konstanty Jelenski, known as Kot, in Rome in 1952. Jelenski joined Fini and Lepri in their Paris apartment and the three remained inseparable until their deaths.

    Source: Wikipedia

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