It's been some time since I have written about great women artists and it is time. Most have not heard of Marie Laurencin, but she sure had some famous friends. Like Mademoiselle Chanel.
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| Marie Laurencin - Portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel, 1923 Source |
Marie was born in Paris and studied porcelain painting before falling in with hip cats of the day: Braque, Picasso, Gris, Apollinaire. Were these artists aware that they were to become something significant? Did they instinctively seek each other out? Were any perfectly ordinary friends among them now lost to history?
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| Marie Laurencin, Group of Artists (1908). Image
via Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. |
Marie was there when crazy notion of cubism cane about. A few of her pieces have a whisper of cubist lines and sober colors. But mostly Maurie Laurencin stuck with what she did best, lovely, effervescent, with the same cast of languid girls.
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| Marie Laurencin - Les jeunes filles - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Why isn't Marie Laurencin's name known worldwide like the names of her posse? Was she too much of a one-note? Is her art just too pretty, lightweight, lacking the grit that would make it important? Perhaps it is all those things, pleasant and superficial.
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