Artist Quote: "Love interests me more than painting. My pictures are the love stories I tell to myself and which I want to tell others." Achievements: During her life she was a sought after portrait painter of notable Parisian celebrities including Coco Chanel. She frequently collaborated on theater sets and costumes for ballet. The record price for this artist at auction is $602,500 USD for Femme aux tulipes, sold at Christie's New York in 2010. | About the Artist: She attended drawing classes at the Académie Humbert before having her first solo exhibition in 1907. Using muted pinks, dove grays, and mint greens the artist created dreamlike visions of reality. She became an important figure in the Parisian art movement called Cubism, which Pablo Picasso was also a member. Her work was influenced by that of other popular painters of the time, but she was differentiated by her focus on female subjects and a unique approach to abstraction. Laurencin painted self-portraits throughout her career and her interest in returning to herself as a subject ties closely to her interest in female independence. Laurencin embraced the idea that her paintings had a decorative purpose, but critical dismissal of 'decorative' as anti-intellectual art meant that male artists saw her work as feminine weakness. After her death, Marie Laurencin's work was largely forgotten until the 1970s, when there was a resurgence of interest spurred by feminist historians. |
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