Stanislao Lepri (12 June 1905 - 1980) was an Italian surrealist painter and former Italian consul to the

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Biography

Born in the house of "

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Lepri

of Rota" Member of the Roman

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, Stanislao Lepri was the Italian consul for the Principality of Monaco. In 1940, he moved to Paris, where he befriended artists such as Picasso, Ernst, and Breton, whose influence can be seen in his later works. In 1941 he met Leonor Fini. In 1943 Lepri is called back to Rome and Fini went with him until the end of the

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. In 1946 they are back in Paris and Lepri abandoned his diplomatic career to become a painter. When Fini met the Polish writer

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, known as Kot, in Rome in 1952, presented to her by

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, Jeleński joined Fini and Lepri in their Paris apartment and the three remained inseparable until their deaths. Lepri was also a theatre scenographer and illustrator, among other he did the scenes for ''Voyage aux états de la Lune'' by

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and in 1950 the costumes for ''L'Armida'' in Florence for the Maggio Fiorentino.

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