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Marie Laurencin
"Jean & Sappho, " Original Portrait Sepia Etching signed by Marie Laurencin
c. 1930s

Name: "Jean & Sappho, " Original Portrait Sepia Etching signed by Marie Laurencin
Brand: Marie Laurencin
Rating: 4.9 (67 reviews)

$1,700List Price

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"Jean & Sappho" is an original sepia etching by Marie Laurencin. The artist's stamped signature is lower right. This piece features a delicate portrait of two women leaning on each other. 13" x 9 7/8" paper 9" x 5 1/2" image 20 7/8" x 17 3/8" frame Marie Laurencin (October 31, 1883 - June 8, 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912). Laurencin's works include paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen. While her work shows the influence of Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who was her close friend, she developed a unique approach to abstraction which often centered on the representation of groups of women and female portraits. Her work lies outside the bounds of Cubist norms in her pursuit of a specifically feminine aesthetic by her use of pastel colors and curvilinear forms. Laurencin's insistence on the creation of a visual vocabulary of femininity, which characterized her art until the end of her life, can be seen as a response to what some consider to be the arrogant masculinity of Cubism.

Creator:
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956, French)
Creation Year:
c. 1930s
Dimensions:
Height: 20.875 in (53.03 cm)Width: 17.375 in (44.14 cm)
Medium:
Etching
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Milwaukee, WI
Reference Number:
Seller: 5655d1stDibs: LU60533559611

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Marie Laurencin

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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(after) Marie LaurencinDeux Filles (Two Girls), c.1940

$475

H 12.35 in W 9.85 in D 0.01 in

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By (after) Marie Laurencin

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Deux Filles (Two Girls) c.1940 is an etching on Wove paper after French artist Marie Laurencin, 1883-1956. It is unsigned as issue. This is a posthumous impression from the canceled plate. The image size is 4.5 x 5.5 inches, plate mark size is 9 x 5.5 inches, sheet size is 12.35 x 9.85 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Marie Laurencin, intimate of Braque, Picasso, Matisse and Appollinaire, was born in 1883. She held a celebrated place in the early part of the 20th century during a period when Art exploded with genius. She lived in the Montmartre District of Paris and became part of the circle revolving around the Steins. Though her early portraits show the imprint of the Fauves and Cubists, her romantic and delicate temperament asserted itself against these schools. She was prim, conservative and always wore a kitchen apron...

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(after) Marie LaurencinDeux Filles (Two Girls) II, c.1940

$468

H 12.85 in W 9.75 in D 0.01 in

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Located in San Francisco, CA

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Marie LaurencinMarie Laurencin - Woman Angel - Original Etching, 1946

$1,420

H 13 in W 9.57 in D 0.04 in

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Marie LaurencinDeux Femmes et un Chien, Impressionist Lithograph by Marie Laurencin, circa 1945

$900

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Marie LaurencinLe Bal Etching, Figurative Print, Marie Laurencin, 1920s, Unframed, 1927

$4,616

H 9.38 in W 10.6 in D 0.04 in

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By Marie Laurencin

Located in Roma, IT

Third state. Published in general catalogue "Marie Laurencin" by Daniel Marchesseau, Kyuryudo,Tokyo, 1981, Number.127, pp.141. Rare etching in near perfect conditions. This artwork ...

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Marie Laurencinoriginal etching, 1926

$350

H 4.89 in W 3.15 in

original etching

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Marie LaurencinLes Deux Anges, 1949

$2,500

H 11.25 in W 8.5 in

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Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this lithograph with strong colors. Second state (of 2). Signed and numbered 19/160 in pencil, lower left.

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Marie LaurencinLovers - Original ink and pencil drawing, 1953, 1953

$2,959

H 9.65 in W 7.68 in

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Marie LaurencinTwo Girls with a Dog - Stone Lithograph - Mourlot, 1928, 1928

$710

H 16.54 in W 12.21 in

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Located in Paris, IDF

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Marie Laurencinoriginal lithograph for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1930

$500

H 9.57 in W 11.15 in

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Located in Henderson, NV

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