Marie Laurencin
1903 portrait drawing by Marie Laurencin of her mother
1903

Name: 1903 portrait drawing by Marie Laurencin of her mother
Brand: Marie Laurencin
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Marie Laurencin (French, 1885 – 1956) Portraits of Pauline Laurencin, the artist’s mother with a further study of a child on the reverse Pencil and pastel on paper Signed and dated ‘ Marie Laurencin, 1903’ (lower right) 6.3/4 x 15.5/8 in. (17.3 x 40 cm.) Bibliography: Catalogue raisonee: Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin volume II, Musee Marie Laurencin, number PP0027, p. 277 Exhibited: Marie Laurencin Japon 3, 1982 #61

Creator:

Marie Laurencin (1883-1956, French)

Creation Year:

1903

Dimensions:

Height: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)Width: 15.63 in (39.71 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Pastel,Paper,Pencil

Movement & Style:

Post-Impressionist

Period:

Early 20th Century

Condition:

In overall good condition. There is the original crease through the vertical. The paper has only slightly yellowed. In a deep mount, the front of which would benefit replacing. In a gilded wood frame behind glass, with a further piece of glass on.

Gallery Location:

Petworth, GB

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU54036680452

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Marie Laurencin

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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