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par Cécile Fara, co-fondatrice de Feminists in the City. · Portraits de femmes, Histoire. Née le 31 octobre 1883, Marie Laurencin est une artiste peintre qui a évolué dans les cercles cubistes et fauvistes. Elle a grandi avec sa mère, qui était brodeuse, à Montmartre, et a suivi ses études jusqu’au baccalauréat.
This exhibition explores Laurencin’s career, from her self-portraits to her collaborative decorative projects; from her early cubist paintings to her signature work—feminine and discreetly queer—that defined 1920s Paris. Presenting 38 works by Laurencin, it examines how her visualization of a “sapphic modernity” subtly but radically ...
Jan 16, 2024 · An early Laurencin painting was Self-Portrait (1905), a subject she returned to throughout her career. By spring 1907 she had met Picasso, who took an interest in her work and introduced her to ...
Apr 19, 2018 · Marie Laurencin was born in Paris on October 31, 1883. She was raised by her mother and studied art alongside Georges Braque, who would go on to help develop the Cubism movement.
Feb 27, 2020 · Jeune femme aux perles. unknown date, oil on canvas by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) Between the 1900s and 1930s, Laurencin was a highly regarded avant-garde painter working in Paris. So much so that in 1923 she attracted the attention of legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel, who commissioned the artist to paint her portrait.
Jan 10, 2024 · Marie Laurencin’s gauzy paintings have lived double lives over the past century. Rendered in soft pinks and grays, the French artist’s slender, sensuous figures were long viewed as coquettish ...
Marie Laurencin herself is depicted kneeling in the foreground wearing a pink tutu, the only warm tone in the painting. Her hands are entwined with those of the young woman on the right. The young woman on the left, excluded from this complicity, is executing a dance step and holding a hat in place on her head.
