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Marie Laurencin (Paris, France, October 31, 1883 - June 8, 1956) was a French painter, printmaker, and theater designer of the Cubist avant-garde linked to the Section d´Or group.

Marie Laurencin started as a porcelain painter from Sèvres in 1901. Later she would move to Pais to take drawing classes at the municipal art school in Paris and at the Académie Humbert (1903-1904), where she met Georges Braque, one of the founders of Cubism.

She exhibited for the first time in 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants, from which the art dealer Clovis Sagot brought her closer to Pablo Picasso and the group of artists at the Bateau-Lavoir de Montmartre. That same year, Picasso introduced her to Guillaume Apollinaire, with whom he would maintain a relationship that would last until 1912 and in which they were both artistically and intellectually influenced. [2]

Although initially interested in Fovism, Marie Laurencin began to simplify the forms in her painting influenced by Cubism, although she never subscribed to this stylistic trend. It was also inspired by Persian miniatures and Rococo art. From 1910 on, its most widely used shades would be grays, pinks and other pastel colors. [2] She participated in group exhibitions in the Salón de los Independientes (1910-1911) and in the Salón de Autumn (1911-1912). . In 1912 she held her second major exhibition at the Barbazanges Gallery, which was the first solo exhibition of a female artist. [1] [5]

In 1914 she married Baron Otto von Wätjen, whom she had met the previous year thanks to German art dealers. After the declaration of the First World War, the couple went into exile in Spain, where they lived in Madrid and later in Barcelona. At that time the artist used darker colors. Associated with Sonia and Robert Delaunay thanks to a meeting organized by Francis Picabia, Marie Laurencin composed several poems for artistic magazines during the year of 1917. In 1920 she made another exhibition in the P. Rosenberg gallery.

In 1921, after separating from her husband, she returned definitively to Paris where Paul Guillaume, whom she met thanks to Apollinaire, served as her art dealer. At that time Marie Laurencin began to draw ethereal female figures again in pastel shades. Her pictorial style included a use of fluid and soft colors, the simplification of composition and a predilection for elongated feminine forms that allow her to occupy a privileged place in Paris in the 1920s.

She illustrated works by André Gide, Max Jacob, Saint-John Perse, Marcel Jouhandeau, Jean Paulhan and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, among others.

Becoming an official portraitist in the world of womens styling, she portrayed women such as Nicole Groult, Helena Rubinstein, Colette and Coco Chanel. [4] Since 1920, Marie Laurencin has also worked as a decorator and theatrical costume designer for the ballet Las Cervas (1924), by Francis Poulenc, and also for the companies of the Opéra-Comique, the Russian Ballets, [2] La Comédie Française and the Roland Petit ballets at the Theater des Champs-Elysées.

In the 1930s, due to the economic crisis stemming from the Great Depression, Marie Laurencin practiced as an art teacher at a private academy. [6] She lived in Paris until her death in 1956.

In 1983 the Marie Laurencin Museum was opened to the public in Nagano, Japan, where more than 500 works by the artist are housed

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