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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Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
Les Biches - Rare Book Illustrated by M. Laurencin - 1924
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Roma, IT
Les Biches is a ballet by Bronislava Nijinska, with music by Francis Poulenc and with costume design by Marie Laurencin. Edition of 335 copies. Copy nu...
Paper, Lithograph
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 Guitar - Original etching, 1945
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Young Girl with Guitar, 1945 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 8,6 inch) REFERENCES : Catalogue raisonné Marchess...
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
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
$1,800
Lithograph Lady Rider Woman on a Horse Marie Laurencin French Post Impressionist
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Surfside, FL
Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956) Lithograph of a colored pencil drawing depicting a woman wearing a hat and riding horseback side saddle, Edition "37/115" to lower left and hand...
Lithograph
Selfportrait with a Baby Dog - Signed Stone Lithograph - 1928
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Selfportrait with a Baby Dog (1928) Stone Lithograph Printed in Atelier Mourlot Plates signed On China paper 42 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12") Excellent condition
Lithograph
Les Deux Anges
By Marie Laurencin
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph with strong colors. Second state (of 2). Signed and numbered 19/160 in pencil, lower left.
Color, Lithograph
Two Girls with a Dog - Stone Lithograph - Mourlot, 1928
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Two Girls with a Dog (1928) Stone Lithograph Printed in Atelier Mourlot Printed signature in the plate On China paper 42 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12") Excellent condition
Lithograph
Young Girl With a Guitar - Original Etching Signed in The Plate
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie Laurencin Young girl with a guitar Original etching, 1945 Signed and dated in the plate Edition of 340 copies, unnumbered as issued On Lana vellum, size 33 x 25,5 cm (c. 13 x ...
Etching
Two Girls with Horses and Dog - Signed Stone Lithograph - 1928
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Two Girls with Horses and Dog (1928) Stone Lithograph Printed in Atelier Mourlot Printed signature in the plate On China paper 31 x 42 c...
Lithograph
Le Bal Etching, Figurative Print, Marie Laurencin, 1920s, Unframed
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Roma, IT
Third state. Published in general catalogue "Marie Laurencin" by Daniel Marchesseau, Kyuryudo,Tokyo, 1981, Number.127, pp.141. Rare etching in near perfect conditions. This artwork ...
Etching
Marie Laurencin - Woman Angel - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marie Laurencin - Woman Angel - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Signed in the plate
Etching
$3,436Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Alice Outside the White Rabbit's House, 1930
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Alice a l'exterieur de la maison du lapin blanc (Alice Outside the White Rabbit's House), from the folio Les aventure...
Lithograph
$3,436Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, All Persons More Than a Mile High Leave the Court, 1930
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Toutes les personnes a plus d'un mile de haut Quitter la Cour (All Persons More Than a Mile High Leave the Court), fr...
Lithograph
$3,436Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Portrait of Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1930
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Portrait d'Alice (Portrait of Alice), from the folio Les aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventures...
Lithograph
$3,436Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Alice in the Pool of Tears, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Alice dans la piscine des larmes (Alice in the Pool of Tears), from the folio Les aventures d'Alice au pays des merve...
Lithograph
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Marie Laurencin, The Sleep of Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1930
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Le sommeil d'Alice (The Sleep of Alice), from the folio Les aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventu...
Lithograph
$3,436Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Alice and the Queen, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1930
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Alice et la Reine (Alice and the Queen), from the folio Les aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventu...
Lithograph
$956Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Pastoral, from Antares, 1944
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune femme et son fils (Young Woman and Her Son), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (An...
Etching
$956Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Young Woman and Her Son, from Antares, 1944
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune femme et son fils (Young Woman and Her Son), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (An...
Etching
$956Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Anxious Young Woman, from Antares, 1944
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune femme inquiète (Anxious Young Woman), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (Antares, ...
Etching
$956Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Abandoned Young Woman, from Antares, 1944
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune abandonée (Abandoned Young Woman), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (Antares, Ori...
Etching
$956Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Three Young Girls, from Antares, 1944
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Trois jeunes filles (Three Young Girls), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (Antares, Ori...
Etching
The Souls of the Righteous
Located in London, GB
Etching, signed bottom right Image size: 2 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (6.5 x 35 cm) Mounted This is an original print from a copper plate etching by Robert Smith Forrest. It depicts one of ...
Paper, Etching
$675
H 20.75 in W 16.75 in D 0.5 in
"The Little One" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
By Eugene Hawkins
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Little One" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A young child is kneeling, facing away ...
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
$235
H 7.49 in W 10.63 in D 0.08 in
Wrestling - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
By Eugène Burnand
Located in Roma, IT
Wrestling is an etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with foxing. The artw...
Engraving, Etching
$6,500
H 14.25 in W 17.88 in
Pablo Picasso, "La Fete de la Madame, " dry point etching
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original dry point etching with aquatint and scraper, created by Pablo Picasso in 1971, for the 156 Series. This piece is stamp signed and ...
Aquatint, Etching
$10,900
H 25.63 in W 33.13 in
"Derriere Le Miroir, " Three Original Color Lithographs by Saul Steinberg
By Saul Steinberg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Derriere Le Miroir" is an original color lithograph signed by the artist Saul Steinberg. The artist's signature is in the bottom left margin. Image Size: 14"x20" Frame Size: 25 5/8...
Lithograph, Paper
La Danse des Faunes
By Pablo Picasso
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Title: La Danse Des Faunes Year: 1957 Medium: Original zinc plate two colors lithograph Edition: Unumbered of 1000 Paper: Arches Ima...
Lithograph
Untitled Aquatint (THE GUITAR PLAYER ED.3 OF 3 A.P) Bernard Stern
By Bernard Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other Subject: Portrait Medium: Aquatint Eching Print Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 30" x 22" The artist Bernard Stern illustrates the figure of a...
Etching, Aquatint
"Pastoral"
By Jacques Villon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Villon (French, 1875-1963) Title: "Pastoral" From the suite "Les Bucoliques" Year: 1953 Medium: Color lithograph Paper: Japan nacre Image size: 8 x 19 inches Sheet size: 22.25 x 18.5 inches Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist Edition: From the edition of 245 Publisher: Scripta and Picta Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed About the artist. Jacques Villon was born Gaston Duchamp on July 31, 1875, in Damville, Normandy. His family is one of remarkable artistic repute; he and his three siblings Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp...
Lithograph
$1,050
H 27.75 in W 23.25 in D 1 in
"Personaje" (Character) - Abstracted Figurative Serigraph on Paper (#146/175)
By Victor Chab
Located in Soquel, CA
"Personaje" (Character) - Abstracted Figurative Serigraph on Paper (#146/175) Abstracted figure with a collage-like appearance by Victor Chab (Argentinian, b. 1930). A figure with f...
Paper, Lithograph
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$3,700
H 28 in W 22 in D 0.75 in
Salvador Dali "Le Dos Divin de Gala" [Gala's Divine Back] Etching, 1974
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Astoria, NY
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989), "Le Dos Divin de Gala" [Gala's Divine Back], Drypoint Etching with Pochoir, 1974, from "After 50 Years of Surrealism", published by Atelier Rigal,...
Drypoint, Etching
$117Sale Price|70% Off
H 10 in W 7.325 in
Untitled Composition (Catalan, Surrealism, Spanish Modern Art, 70% OFF MUST GO)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Ponc Untitled Composition from "Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona at Redfern Gallery, London" Original Color Lithograph Year: 1979 Edition: 1000 Size: 10 x 7.325 inches (25.4 × 18...
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Celui qui dit les choses sans rien dire, Planche XXV
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Celui qui dit les choses sans rien dire, Planche XXV Etching and aquatint from 1976. The edition of 225. Dimensions of sheet: 47 x 35 cm Dimensions in ...
Etching, Aquatint
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 9.84 in W 11.81 in
Composition, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Marie Laurencin
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in colors on vélin de Rives BFK à la forme paper. Paper Size: 9.84 x 11.81 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Alice...
Lithograph
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
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H 19.3 in W 14.57 in D 0.08 in
Fillette à La Rose - Etching by Marie Laurencin - 1955
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 143/150, second state. Excellent condition. Ref: D. Marchesseau, "Marie Laurencin" , Kyuryudo,Tokyo, 1981, n. 283, p.114. Marie Laurencin was...
Paper, Etching
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
Les Deux Espagnoles
By Marie Laurencin
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce etching. An intermediate state between the first and second states (of 2), before the complete darkening of the backgrou...
Etching
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H 19.75 in W 23.5 in
Lithograph Lady Rider Woman on a Horse Marie Laurencin French Post Impressionist
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Surfside, FL
Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956) Lithograph of a colored pencil drawing depicting a woman wearing a hat and riding horseback side saddle, Edition "37/115" to lower left and hand signed "Laurencin" in pencil to lower right, with a cloth mat and housed in a silvered wood frame. Dimensions: Image, 12" H x 16" W; frame, 19.75" H x 23.5" W x 1.5" D. Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. 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), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist." Laurencin's oeuvre include painting, watercolor paintings, drawing, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen...
Lithograph
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
Etching, Aquatint