Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956) - Lot 55

Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956) Study of women Pencil on paper, monogrammed lower right. H_ 32 cm L_ 41 cm Marie Laurencin, born in Paris in 1883 and died in 1956, was a major French painter and printmaker of the early XXᵉ century, close to the Cubist movement but developing a highly personal and poetic style. After her studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, she frequented the Parisian avant-garde milieu and befriended artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and other figures of the Paris of the 1910-1920s. Her work is characterized by delicate, stylized female figures with soft contours and pastel color palettes. Laurencin mainly painted portraits and intimate scenes, often centered on women and couples, where sensitivity and poetry dominate. From 1910 onwards, Marie Laurencin exhibited in Parisian salons and galleries, took part in Cubist exhibitions and contributed to avant-garde magazines. Today, her works are housed in numerous museums in France and abroad, including the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London, testifying to her lasting influence on modern art.