In the history of art, Marie Laurencin is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Marie Laurencin as French painter, poet and printmaker (1883-1956).
Marie Laurencin was born at 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris in 1883. Her recorded nationality is France.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as painter, printmaker and scenographer.
Her recorded movement is fauvism and cubism.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Marie Laurencin died in 1956, aged 73. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Fauvism and cubism
