Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin , born with Paris the October 31st 1883 and died in Paris the June 8th 1956 is a painter and graveuse Frenchwoman.

Biography

In 1907, it exposes for the first time to the Salon of Independent the. It is this same year as Picasso makes known to him Guillaume Apollinaire. From this meeting, is born a connection as impassioned as tumultuous which lasts until 1912. In 1914, she marries the baron Otto von Wätjen, which she met the previous year. The couple is exiled in Spain as of the declaration of war, initially with Madrid, then with Barcelona. It joins the artists Sonia and Robert Delaunay thanks to a meeting organized by Francis Picabia, for which it composes of the poems for its review hobby-horse 291 in 1917. It returns to Paris in 1920.

Its style is a particular use of fluid colors and suaves, an increasing simplification of the composition, a predilection for certain lengthened and gracious female forms, which will enable him soon to occupy a place privileged in the middle of Paris society man of the Années 1920.

It ties major and fertile bonds with many writers of which it illustrates works: Gide, max Jacob, Persian Saint-John, Marcel Jouhandeau, Jean Paulhan, Lewis Carroll, Henri-Pierre Rock and well of others.

Become portraitist official of female the society man medium (Nicole Groult, Coco Chanel) in the years 1920, Marie Laurencin still illustrates as decorator for the ballet the Hinds of Serge Diaghilev on a music of Francis Poulenc (1924), then for the Op3era Comique, the Comédie-Française and the Ballets of Roland Petit with the Théâtre of the Fields-Elysées.

External bonds

Site of the Meeting of the National museums
Marie Laurencin in Artcyclopedia

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