Marie Laurencin - Litho. Titel. DEUX VROUWEN / TWEE VROUWEN - Sold

Posthumously released, authorized edition. Marie Laurencin gave the rights to her work as a donation to a charity (Le Orphelins d'Auteuil), which released a number of lithographs in 1991. Including blind stamps and signature of the entitled party. The original paintings date from the early 20th century. Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. She was Apollinaire's Muse, had a tempestuous affair with him and wrote poems under a pseudonym. She was also involved in the literary salons of the American writer Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), who was called 'the Amazon of Paris' because of her open lesbian relationships. Laurencin was part of the group of writers and painters of the Bateau-Lavoir group (like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque) and created a feminine variant of Cubism. She was also associated with the Section d'Or and was the only woman to exhibit her paintings among the artists of Montparnasse (Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri le Fauconnier, Robert Delaunay and Francis Picabia) at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Or. 'Automne. In 1913 she was one of the few women to participate in the Armory Show in New York.