Leonor Fini’s presence once again points to her foundational role in the history of Galerie Minsky and in the vision of its president, while also reflecting the remarkable reassessment her work is currently undergoing. This renewed recognition will reach a new stage with a major retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, opening in Frankfurt this October, during Frieze Masters.

The selection is broadly defined by a commitment to figuration—at times becoming a path towards abstraction, as in the production of artists such as Tanning and Fini (Budapest was Great, 1988; 14 Chats dans la forêt, 1962)—as well as by an insistence on the meticulous rendering of the textures of the visible, everyday world. In Pierre Roy’s masterpieces, precision becomes an unexpected vehicle for poetry and dreamlike imagery, bringing them into dialogue with the notion of Magical Realism. After returning from a trip through Italy —and Florence in particular—Paul Klee captures his vision of a city where ancient remnants are subtly evoked through pastels and motifs that recall Italian Renaissance, while also highlighting the influence of the Bauhaus, for which he had been teaching since 1921. Architecture and art blend seamlessly in the poetic style characteristic of the artist in Ruinen von Al, 1926. The painting has been held in a private collection since 1986. From Max Ernst’s Aux antipodes du paysage, 1936, to Stella Snead’s Snake Tongue Pier, 1989, and Paul Klee’s Ruinen von Al, 1926, the works represent spaces at the edges of reality, where the natural and the supernatural meet. In some of them, dreamlike qualities arise from a blurring between the animate and the inanimate, with one transforming into the other, as seen in Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Lamp, 1954.

The presentation marks the gallery’s continued collaboration with the estates of Pierre Roy and Stanislao Lepri. It further marks the significant return of Stella Snead’s paintings to London, the city of her birth and early life, following the first exhibition of her work in Paris organized by Galerie Minsky in 2000.