question: What Italian surrealist painter was André Pieyre de Mandiargues  a close friend of?
answer: Leonor Fini
context: Title: The Wood Wife
  Passage: The Wood Wife by Terri Windling was published by Tor Books in 1996, and won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year.  Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary Tucson, Arizona, the novel could equally be described as magical realism, contemporary fantasy, or mythic fiction.  Windling draws on myth, folklore, poetry, and the history of surrealist art to tell the story of a woman who finds her muse in a spirited desert landscape.  The plot revolves around a reclusive English poet, Davis Cooper, and his lover, Mexican surrealist painter Anna Naverra—a character remininscent of the real-life Mexican painter Remedios Varo.
  Title: Ángeles Santos Torroella
  Passage: Àngeles Santos Torroella (7 November 1911 – 3 October 2013) was a Catalan surrealist painter.  Born in Portbou, Spain, she was the sister of the poet and art critic Rafael Santos Torroella.  She married the painter .  Her son is the painter Julià Grau Santos.  In 2005 she received the Creu de Sant Jordi.
  Title: The Margin (novel)
  Passage: The Margin (French: "La Marge") is a novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues published in 1967, which won the Prix Goncourt the same year.  It was first published in the UK as "The Margin" in 1970, translated by R. Howard.
  Title: André Pieyre de Mandiargues
  Passage: André Pieyre de Mandiargues (14 March 1909 – 13 December 1991) was a French writer born in Paris.  He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis).  He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini.
  Title: The Margin (film)
  Passage: The Margin (French: "La Marge" , also known as "The Streetwalker" and "Emmanuelle 77") is a 1976 French erotic drama film written and directed by Walerian Borowczyk and starring Sylvia Kristel.  It is loosely based on the novel "The Margin" by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
  Title: Leonora Carrington
  Passage: Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 191725 May 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist.  She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s.  Leonora Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
  Title: Leonor Fini
  Passage: Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful women.
  Title: Immoral Women
  Passage: Immoral Women (French: "Les héroïnes du mal" ) is a 1979 French erotic drama directed by Walerian Borowczyk, written by Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues and starring Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marina Pierro and Françoise Quéré.
  Title: Anke-Eve Goldmann
  Passage: Anke-Eve Goldmann was a journalist for "Cycle World", "Das Motorrad" in Germany, "Moto Revue" in France and other international motorcycle magazines.  Goldman was a friend of author André Pieyre de Mandiargues and the inspiration for the main character, 'Rebecca', in his most popular book "The Motorcycle" (1963).  The book was adapted for the 1968 film "The Girl on a Motorcycle" starring Marianne Faithfull.  From the 1950s, she competed in endurance and circuit racing, at the Nürburgring and Hockenheimring but being a woman, was barred from higher level competitions.
  Title: Giovanni Pelliccioli
  Passage: Giovanni Pelliccioli is an Italian surrealist painter.  He was born in 1947 at San Pellegrino, Terme, Italy.  When he was eight he discovered art and started drawing.  At 18 he began art studies at Carrara Academy of Bergame.  At this time he painted realist and impressionist style paintings, but when he discovered surrealism he knew it would permit him to give the best of his artistic expression.  Since then he has worked as a professional surrealist painter.  In 40 years he has painted more than 4200 paintings.
citations: André Pieyre de Mandiargues Leonor Fini