Artist Marie Laurencin is best known for her enchanting portraits of women and young girls. The Parisian artist was linked to the avant-garde Cubist movement, but she endeavored to disassociate herself from the style as she instead drew on the Impressionist style of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in her paintings and prints, and created poetic, overtly sensual images of women in Fauvism’s subdued pastels at a time when the leagues of male artists around her became famous for making still lifes.
Just as Renoir and other painters began their careers painting pottery in Limoges, Laurencin trained in porcelain painting in the southwestern suburbs of Paris before she studied oil painting at Académie Humbert alongside influential Cubist painter Georges Braque and French designer and painter Francis Picabia. Her circle consisted of widely known and reputable artists including Braque and Pablo Picasso, with whom she exhibited. Her romantic partners were both male and female over the years, and she repeatedly refused marriage proposals from the most famous art dealer at the time, Sir Joseph Duveen, Baronet. Laurencin had a romantic relationship with French poet Guillaume Apollinaire that lasted six years.
Laurencin produced most of her best known work throughout the 1920s. During this era, she worked with art dealer Paul Rosenberg although she frequently ignored his business advice. Known to only paint children she liked, Laurencin also charged men twice that of women, as well as brunettes more than blondes, and offered discounts for works she enjoyed doing and steeper prices for those she cared less for.
Laurencin’s work increasingly attracted attention over time — she had more than ten solo exhibitions in 1939 alone and was commissioned for portraits by the likes of Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel. (Revered fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld — who consistently displayed a knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low — drew on the work of Laurencin in his Spring/Summer 2011 collection for Chanel.)
Laurencin’s six illustrations of "Alice" in a 1930 edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland comprise a small sample of the art she made that is held in the public collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her works are also held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d’Orsay and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In 1983, a museum opened in her honor — the Musée Marie Laurencin in Nagano, Japan. At the time, it was the only museum in the world to focus solely on a female painter.
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Mystery Signed Mid Century French School Woman with Cat
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous mystery piece. It is an oil on canvas and is signed lower right, unfortunately I cannot make it out. The style looks to be French and looks to be painted in mid 20th centuy....
Oil
Henri Laurens “Tete de Femme a L’eventail’
By Henri Laurens
Located in San Francisco, CA
Henri Laurens: 1885-1954. Well listed French artist with Auction records in the millions of dollars and over $8000 for a print. This rare print came in a small edition of Which I bel...
Etching
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) "Anais" Pencil Signed Etching c.1930
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) Etching "Anais" c.1930 Very fine etching by listed English / American artist Gerald Brockhurst. Title "Anais" Pencil signed - From an edition of 55. ...
Etching
Andre Minaux "Tete de Femme" Original Lithograph c.1960s
By Andre Minaux
Located in San Francisco, CA
Andre Minaux "Tete de Femme" Original Lithograph c.1960s From a limited edition of only 90. This lithograph is pencil signed and numbered by the artist. Dimensions 22" x 29 1/2". T...
Lithograph
Warren Chase Merritt "Melodie Arabe" Original Watercolor c.1939
By Warren Chase Merritt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Warren Chase Merritt "Melodie Arabe" Original Watercolor c.1939 Original watercolor on paper Dimensions 13" wide x 18.5" high The frame measures 20" wide x 26.5" high Signed and ...
Watercolor
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
By Jules Pascin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920 Plate dimensions 9" wide x 12" high Frame dimensions 19.5" wide x 26.5" high Plate signed The etchi...
Etching
Marie Laurencin Original Graphite Drawing - Female Portrait
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Graceful original graphite drawing by French artist Marie Laurencin (1885-1956). Signed lower right with her initials "M.L." Created circa 1930's. Graphite on Paper. Image size: 10...
Paper, Graphite
"Jeune Fille, " Original Sepia Portrait Etching signed by Marie Laurencin
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jeune Fille" is an original sepia etching by Marie Laurencin. The artist's stamped signature is in the lower right. This piece features a delicate portrait of a young girl. 13" x 9 7/8' paper 9" x 5 1/2" image 20 7/8" x 17 3/8" frame Marie Laurencin (October 31, 1883 - June 8, 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912). Laurencin's works include paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen...
Etching
Follower of Marie Laurencin, Female Portrait with Rose, circa 1930
Located in Firenze, IT
Follower of Marie Laurencin, Female Portrait with Rose, oil on canvas, circa 1930. Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 34.5 x 40.5 cm (unframed); 47 x 38.5 cm (framed). Follower of Marie La...
Canvas, Oil
Female drawing - Original pencil drawing
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Female drawing Original drawing Signed with the stamp of the artist On paper 16 x 10 cm (c. 6.2 x 3.93 in) Good condition, the paper slightly yellowish
Pencil
Marie Laurencin Original Etching with Hand Coloring - Woman with Pearl Necklace
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Dark haired beauty with pearl necklace - original etching with hand coloring by French artist Marie Laurencin (1885-1956). Edition size: 40 of 80. Stamped signature lower right. ...
Paper, Ink
Self Portrait, Signed Impressionist Lithograph by Marie Laurencin
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Self Portrait Marie Laurencin, French (1885–1956) Date: 1920 Lithograph, signed in pencil lower left Image Size: 8 x 5 inches Size: 13 x 9.75 in. (33.02 x 24.77 cm)
Lithograph
