Marie Laurencin
Jeunes filles et cavalière dans un parc
Artista
Marie Laurencin
1883 - Paris - 1956
Ulteriori informazioni
Marchesseau 1474.
Mit einer Expertise von Gilbert Pétridès, Paris, vom 27.3.1987.
Mit einer Expertise von Gilbert Pétridès, Paris, vom 27.3.1987.
Mostra
Petits Bijoux, Helly Nahmad Gallery, London 2026, o. Kat.
Provenienza
Estate of the artist;
Collection of Suzanne Moreau-Laurencin, Paris, the artist’s adopted daughter;
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1986, ‘Vente Succession Moreau-Laurencin’, lot 162;
Private collection, Monaco, acquired before 1998.
Collection of Suzanne Moreau-Laurencin, Paris, the artist’s adopted daughter;
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1986, ‘Vente Succession Moreau-Laurencin’, lot 162;
Private collection, Monaco, acquired before 1998.
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Descrizione
• Laurencin is one of the most significant representatives of French Modernism
• Dreamlike aesthetic
• Laurencin took part in major exhibitions from an early age, such as those organised by Berthe Weill
Marie Laurencin’s works are characterised by a uniquely airy style. Her work depicts girls or young women detached from reality, in flowing, airy gowns with flowers in their hair.
This park scene of a ‘Fête galante’ featuring four female figures – one on horseback and one with a lyre and a goat – is drawn by the artist from the Rococo period. The leading exponents of this genre included Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. As here, scenes of couples in love, dancers, attractive ladies and shepherds were captured in a rural idyll. Laurencin employs a colour palette of blues, reds and yellows, which she lightens with plenty of white and shades of grey-green. She depicts nature in a very simplified manner, with the female figures and animals taking centre stage. Through her very distinctive choice of colours and a few delicate dark lines, she brings her subjects to life and lends them a magical, ethereal quality.
Although Marie Laurencin was acquainted from an early age with Cubists such as Georges Braque and later with Pablo Picasso, she did not adopt their Cubist style but developed her own unique one. Laurencin, regarded as the muse of Guillaume Apollinaire, published individual lyrical works in 1905 under the pseudonym Louise Lalanne. Two years later, her first exhibition took place at the Salon des Indépendants. Further exhibitions followed at the Galerie Berthe Weill, the Galerie Barbazanges and later at the Armory Show in New York.
Her works are on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Gallery in London and the Marie Laurencin Museum in Tokyo, among others.
• Dreamlike aesthetic
• Laurencin took part in major exhibitions from an early age, such as those organised by Berthe Weill
Marie Laurencin’s works are characterised by a uniquely airy style. Her work depicts girls or young women detached from reality, in flowing, airy gowns with flowers in their hair.
This park scene of a ‘Fête galante’ featuring four female figures – one on horseback and one with a lyre and a goat – is drawn by the artist from the Rococo period. The leading exponents of this genre included Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. As here, scenes of couples in love, dancers, attractive ladies and shepherds were captured in a rural idyll. Laurencin employs a colour palette of blues, reds and yellows, which she lightens with plenty of white and shades of grey-green. She depicts nature in a very simplified manner, with the female figures and animals taking centre stage. Through her very distinctive choice of colours and a few delicate dark lines, she brings her subjects to life and lends them a magical, ethereal quality.
Although Marie Laurencin was acquainted from an early age with Cubists such as Georges Braque and later with Pablo Picasso, she did not adopt their Cubist style but developed her own unique one. Laurencin, regarded as the muse of Guillaume Apollinaire, published individual lyrical works in 1905 under the pseudonym Louise Lalanne. Two years later, her first exhibition took place at the Salon des Indépendants. Further exhibitions followed at the Galerie Berthe Weill, the Galerie Barbazanges and later at the Armory Show in New York.
Her works are on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Gallery in London and the Marie Laurencin Museum in Tokyo, among others.