Dimensions: 33 x 26 cm (sheet)
Signed and numbered in pencil below the composition: '159/200 Marie Laurencin'
Biography
She began her art education at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sevres, where she learned to decorate porcelain. In 1905, she returned to her native Paris, where she took classes at l'Academie Humbert, studying painting and decorative arts. Marie Laurencin was the muse and great love of avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Her romantic relationship with the famous artist earned her a place in the French art bohemia in Montmarte and later in Montparnasse. She portrayed Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel or Helena Rubinstein, while her paintings were bought by Gertrude Stein herself. In addition to numerous portraits of Parisian celebrities, her art was dominated by lyrical and pastel portraits of women, oscillating between ballet and decorative arts
