Marie Laurencin Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
French, 1885-1956
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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Artist: Marie Laurencin
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...
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Mid-20th Century Marie Laurencin Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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1903 portrait drawing by Marie Laurencin of her mother
By 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
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Marie Laurencin portrait drawing of her mother, 1903
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Marie Laurencin (French, 1885 – 1956)
Portrait of Pauline Laurencin, the artist’s mother, circa 1903
Black crayon on paper
Inscribed ‘Despair and die / not die’ (upper right)
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Marie Laurencin Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Barbazangues 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...
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- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 19, 2025Marie Laurencin is famous for being an artist. She is best known for her enchanting portraits of women and young girls. The Parisian artist was linked to avant-garde Cubism, yet she endeavored to disassociate herself from the movement. She instead drew on the Impressionist style of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in her paintings and prints and created poetic, sensual images of women in Fauvism’s subdued pastels. Find a collection of Marie Laurencin art on 1stDibs.