Flower Portrait - Original pencil drawing, 1953
View Similar Items
Marie Laurencin Flower Portrait - Original pencil drawing, 19531953
1953
About the Item
- Creator:Marie Laurencin (1883-1956, French)
- Creation Year:1953
- Dimensions:Height: 9.65 in (24.5 cm)Width: 7.68 in (19.5 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU46436747252
Marie Laurencin
Around 1905 Georges Braque took Marie Laurencin to the Bateau Lavoir, Picasso's famously run-down studio on Rue Ravignan. Laurencin and Braque had both studied at the Académie Humbert. Laurencin originally aimed to paint on porcelain but Braque had the full measure of his colleague's talent and persuaded her to broaden her horizons.
On Rue Ravignan Laurencin found herself in an environment where she could thrive, where painting and literature mingled freely in a state, Picasso said, of permanent cross-fertilization, and at a moment when Fauvism was about to be supplanted by Cubism. Soon Guillaume Apollinaire was devoting to her an important chapter in his The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations (Peintres Cubistes: Méditations Esthétiques). Married to a German baron she fled France during World War I and lived in Spain, where she met Picabia among others, to return to Paris in 1920.
Laurencin's first canvases are sharper in tone than her later work. From her Ravignan period she left some paintings of real quality which also record the Bateau Lavoir dwellers, famously Picasso and Fernande Olivier, his mistress. Laurencin would enlarge on this composition by grouping together Picasso, Olivier (who wrote Picasso and His Friends [Picasso et ses Amis]), the poet Marguerite Gillot, the poet Maurice Chevrier, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon. The Pont Mirabeau, dear to Apollinaire, can be seen in the background. During her time at Ravignan she also produced burin engravings and woodcuts inspired by fables and romantic street songs.
Laurencin had found her style. She became a painter of doe-like girls, merging realism and fantasy like some poets of her generation. Some see Eugène Carrière's influence in her early works, yet her palette shows much more distinct shading. Laurencin created this unique palette, rich in colors chosen for their softness, the full range of which she explored, deftly and firmly stressing tonalities. Famous among her works are the following: Guitar, Child with Violin, Princess, Sirens, Portrait of Jeannot, Portrait of René Dalize, Portrait of Marcel Jouhandeau and Portrait of André Salmon. She also illustrated many books: Marie Laurencin's Fan (L'Éventail de Marie Laurencin), a collection of poems written for her by writer friends, The Attempt at Love (La Tentative Amoureuse) and The Poems of André Walter (Les Poésies d'André Walter) by André Gide, books by Jacques de Lacretelle, André Salmon, Paul Morand, Louise Faure-Favier and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Laurencin also pioneered new approaches to theatre set designing, memorably so in the Cocteau and Milhaud collaboration Does (Les Biches) for the Ballets Russes in 1924, and What Do Girls Dream Of? (À Quoi Rêvent les Jeunes Filles?) for the Comédie Française in 1928, even providing themes for the ballet.
She exhibited for the first time in 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. In 1912 she showed her work with Robert Delaunay at the Galerie Barbazanges and contributed to the decoration of the Cubist house for the Salon d'Automne. In 1937 at the Petit Palais, Laurencin provided an exemplary sample of her work, including Portrait (1904), Portrait of a Young Woman in a Pink and Black Hat, two canvases executed in 1908 and 1909 and both entitled Guillaume Apollinaire and his Friends (referring to the Picasso circle), Flowers, Two Sisters, Marie Laurencin in Blue (1936), Game of Badminton, Flower Pot, Blue Angel (1929), Young Girls with a Mandolin, Portrait of Madame C.P., Artist and Model, Portrait of Anne-Françoise Mare and Pot and Lemons. In 2002 she featured in the exhibition “Women of Montparnasse” (Elles de Montparnasse) at the Musée du Montparnasse in Paris, chronicling the emancipation of female artists between the wars. In 1994 the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny presented a retrospective of her work.
Find original Marie Laurencin prints, drawings and watercolor paintings on 1stDibs.
(Biography provided by Leighton Fine Art Ltd.)
- Colorful flowers - Original pencil drawing, 1953By Marie LaurencinLocated in Paris, FRMarie LAURENCIN Colorful flowers, 1953 Original pencil drawing Signed by artist stamp On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch) Very good conditi...Category
1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPencil, Color Pencil, Charcoal
- Spring Blossom : Leaves in Blue - Original pencil drawing, 1953By Marie LaurencinLocated in Paris, FRMarie LAURENCIN Spring Blossom : Leaves in Blue, 1953 Original pencil drawing Signed by artist stamp On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch) Very good condition, marks of the ...Category
1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPencil, Charcoal, Color Pencil
- The Old Pine - Original Signed Charcoals DrawingBy Gustave PoetzschLocated in Paris, FRGustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) The Old Pine, 1891 Original charcoals and pencil drawing Signed on the back Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back on cream vellum 27.5 x 25 cm (...Category
1890s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPencil, Charcoal
- Study for a Celebration Menu - Original Signed Watercolor and Pencil DrawingBy Gustave PoetzschLocated in Paris, FRGustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Study for a Celebration Menu Original watercolor and pencil drawing Signed in pencil Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back on vellum 31 x 21 cm ...Category
1890s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsWatercolor, Charcoal, Pencil
- The Lake During Winter - Original Watercolor and Charcoals DrawingBy Gustave PoetzschLocated in Paris, FRGustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) The Lake During Winter Original charcoals and watercolor drawing Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back on cream vellum mounted on board 41 x 32 ...Category
1890s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsCharcoal, Watercolor, Pencil
$274 Sale Price37% Off - Etretat Cliff, Normandy - Original Signed Charcoals DrawingBy Gaston CoppensLocated in Paris, FRGaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Etretat Cliff, Normandy Original charcoal drawing Signed with the artist stamp on the bottom right of the sheet Stamp of the artist's workshop on the ba...Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsCharcoal
- Algeria, Mountain Pass: Detailed Color Pencil Drawing of Landscape & StampBy Andrea MoreauLocated in Hudson, NYcolored pencil and postage stamp on paper 30 x 22 inches 34 x 26.5 inches framed This modern, intricately drawn color pencil drawing was made by American artist, Andrea Moreau, in 2016. The artist creates her drawings by embellishing the design found in the postage stamp, which she collects from her travels around the globe. This specific red stamp is from Algeria and features a bridge through a mountain pass in teal and maroon color. The stamp is highlighted in the middle of the drawing and the artist then embellishes on the design from the stamp, extending it into the further reaches of paper with teal and maroon colored pencil. The colored pencil landscape...Category
2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPaper, Found Objects, Color Pencil
- "Big Bend #5" Modern Abstract Mixed Media LandscapeBy Jack BoyntonLocated in Houston, TXMixed Media work of a Texas national park called Big Bend. The work consists of a landscape photograph with color pencil drawing around the photograph that continues the landscape. T...Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Color Pencil
- "View of Village" Early Modern Gestural Abstract Landscape Drawing of HousesLocated in Houston, TXEarly modern landscape drawing by German artist Hermann Max Pechstein. The work features a gestural depiction of a winding path leading into a small village. Signed with a monogram i...Category
1910s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPaper, Color Pencil
- Modern Abstract Blue and Orange Toned Mountainous Village Landscape DrawingLocated in Houston, TXModern abstract blue and orange toned landscape drawing by American artist Jane Tate. The work features a majestic mountain landscape with houses dotting the...Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPastel, Pencil, Color Pencil
- Bucolic Scene - 1930/40s - Oskar Kokoschka - Pencil DrawingBy Oskar KokoschkaLocated in Roma, ITBucolic Scene is a beautiful original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka, with monogram and autograph ...Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsColor Pencil
- Animal Grazing - 1950s - Oskar Kokoschka - Modern ArtBy Oskar KokoschkaLocated in Roma, ITThis beautiful drawing is hand-signed and dated. Image Dimensions : 14 x 22.5cmCategory
1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsColor Pencil