Marie Laurencin - Originele ca. 1930 , potloodgesigneerde Lithografie - Zelportret - BIJZONDER!! - Sold

You are bidding on an ORIGINAL PENCIL SIGNED Lithograph "autoportrait les yeux fermés / self-portrait with closed eyes" made around 1920 by the well-known French Avant Gardist artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956).
Monogrammed in pencil in the lower right and fully signed in pencil on the back.
The Lithograph measures 29.5 x 23 cm (HxW). Dimensions including the beautiful 1930s gold-veined passe-partout and the frame are approx. 30 x 40 cm.
Provenance: collection Voskuyl - Bubb Kuyper auctions Haarlem.

Marie Laurencin (Paris, October 31, 1883 – Paris, June 8, 1956) was a French figurative painter, engraver and illustrator, who was closely associated with the origin of modern art. As a set designer for neoclassical ballet performances, she aspired, like her admirer Max Jacob, to transcend the various disciplines in the arts. She also wrote letters and free verse poems, which in her creative process were inextricably linked to the way in which she expressed her limitless imagination in her painting.

Marie Laurencin's style was also called 'nymphism' and transcends both Fauvism and Cubism. Together with other great artists of the time, such as Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and Henri Matisse, she was one of the pioneers of both Cubism and Dadaism. In her very own style, which was criticized for being too sweet, she used pastels to paint recurring subjects such as fairytale animals, flowers and androgynous and unreal pale young women.

Although she had been the partner of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire for six years, Flap, as her first lover Henri-Pierre Roché called her, eventually married the German painter Otto de Waetjen in 1914. Because as a pacifist he refused to take up arms against the French, she lost her nationality when the First World War broke out, all her possessions were taken from her and she had to leave as an exile to Spain. After her divorce, she regained her position during the interwar period and continued her love affair with Nicole Groult, an unobtrusive but not secret affair that would last about forty years. As an international personality, she portrayed celebrities from all over Paris at the time. During the occupation, she maintained her mundane lifestyle and reconciled with her German friends, while also helping Max Jacob, her companion in the esoteric teaching. However, she failed to get him out of the Drancy internment camp in time; he died there on March 5, 1944. After the liberation, she was in turn interned in this camp as part of large-scale purges - she narrowly escaped the fate of the women who were shaved - until she was acquitted and received nine days later by her friend Marguerite Donnadieu.

Both her life and her painting were once again in the spotlight when the singer Joe Dassin mentioned her in 1975 in his biggest hit song L'été doen. While she was highly regarded in Japan, her works were hardly exhibited in France, and it was only in 2011 that Bertrand Meyer-Stabley published a biography of her exploring the unknown sides of her person. In 2013, the general public finally became acquainted with her work thanks to an exhibition in Paris.