Marie Laurencin

Colored pastel crayon. Complete set of Six drawings over Lithographic Outline Proofs for Alice in Wonderland (Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930). Each picture signed in colored pencil by the artist. Measures 10-7/8 x 14-1/4 inches. TOGETHER WITH 6 canceled outline proofs from the printers E. Desjobert, signed and dated “October 1930” with the printer’s stamp (9-3/4 x 11-7/8 inches on tinted BFK wove paper). Contained in cloth-backed silver-paper edged portfolio with fabric ties.

 



 

Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) was a French painter and printmaker, and associated with the Cubists, having been acquainted with some of its leading proponents, but her imagery remained in the romantic and lyrical design of dreamy pastel colors and languid lines.