Jeune Femme aux Perles by Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)oil on canvas, date unknown Laurenci
Jeune Femme aux Perles by Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)oil on canvas, date unknown Laurencin was perhaps the most celebrated woman painter of avant-garde Paris. She was colleagues with Picasso at a time when few women were permitted into his inner circle. Laurencin was also a society fixture, befriending and painting Coco Chanel, and regularly attending Natalie Barney’s salons. Most of her works portray a syrupy fantasy realm where girls play in perfume clouds - a queer modernist vision that riffed on Fauvism and Cubism while asserting profound independence from these movements. Yet Laurencin’s legacy is shamefully underrepresented in art history. She’s one more great woman artist who’s been left out of the popular canon. Why Marie Laurencin, the Queen of Avant-Garde Paris, Was Misunderstood for Decades by Miranda Gabbott -- source link
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