1955
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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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
Deux Femmes et un Chien, Impressionist Lithograph by Marie Laurencin
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marie Laurencin, French (1885 - 1956) - Deux Femmes et un Chien, Year: circa 1945, Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate, Image Size: 13.25 x 9.75 inches, Size: 17.5 x 14 in. (44...
Lithograph
Nana, Modern Lithograph by Jules Pascin
By Jules Pascin
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Nana" is an original lithograph after a early 20th Century painting by Jules Pascin. The work bears the artist's stamp signature and numbering in pencil. Estate authorization by Luc...
Lithograph
Femme a la Robe, Blanche Couronee de Fleurs - Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wearing a crown of white flowers, the woman in the white dress has clear blue eyes and pink lips. A classic example of Pablo Picasso's work, the woman's face is disjointed and fragme...
Lithograph
Le Philosophe au Papillon, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Le Philosophe au Papillon from Je Reve Portfolio, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 93/125, Si...
Lithograph
Danseuse, Stamp-Signed Impressionist Lithograph Portrait After Jules Pascin
By Jules Pascin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Danseuse by Jules Pascin (After), Bulgarian/French (1885–1930) Lithograph on Arches, Stamp-Signed and Numbered in pencil Edition of 125 Image Size: 22.5 x 19 inches Size: 29 in. x 21...
Paper, Lithograph
Young Girl with Pearl Necklace, 1945 - Original Etching (Marchesseau #236)
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie Laurencin Young Girl with Pearl Necklace, 1945 Original etching On Japan paper, 32,5 x 25 cm (c. 12,7 x 9,8 inch) REFERENCE : Catalogue raisonné Daniel Marchesseau #236 Exce...
Etching
"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
L'Éventail rose
By Marie Laurencin
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce color etching and drypoint. Fourth state (of 4). Signed and numbered 54/100 in pencil, lower margin.
Color, Drypoint, Etching
Young Girl with Pearl Necklace - Original etching, 1943
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Young Girl with Pearl Necklace Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed i...
Etching
Woman with Necklace - Original Lithograph - (Catalog raisonne Marchesseau #138)
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Woman with Necklace, 1930 Original stone lithograph On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 inch) REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne Marchesseau #138 Excellent condition
Lithograph
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...
Oil, Canvas
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