Lot 8
  • 8

Marie Laurencin

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Marie Laurencin
  • Autoportrait à la tresse et au col croisé, 1911
  • watercolour and charcoal on paper
  • Signed Marie Laurencin and dated 1911 lower right
  • 26,4 x 20,4 cm; 10 3/8 x 8 in.

Provenance

Maître Ferri, Paris, March 9, 1994, lot 10

Exhibited

Tokyo, Isetan, Marie Laurencin, July 1 - 11, 1978, no. 63
Tokyo, Tokyo Art Institute, Le Bateau-Lavoir et La Ruche, Montmartre et Montparnasse, 1994
Paris, le Musée du Montparnasse, Il était une fois des femmes à Montparnasse, April - September 2012
Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Château de Chamerolles, Femmes artistes. Passions, Muses et Modèles, June 2 - September 2, 2012

Literature

Marie Laurencin, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Isetan, July 1 - 11, 1978, illustrated
Le Bateau-Lavoir et La Ruche, Montmartre et Montparnasse, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Tokyo Art Institute, 1994
Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre Vol. II Peintures Céramiques Œuvres sur papier, Paris, 1999, no. PP.0218, illustrated p. 325
Sylvie Buisson, Femmes artistes, Passions, Muses, Modèles, Paris, 2012, illustrated p. 89

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, taped to the overmount on five points to all four corners and to the centre of the lower edge. The right edge is deckled. There are four artist pinholes to the right and left parts of the upper edge and to the centre of the upper edge. There is some adhesive remnants to the right and left part of the upper edge. There are a few scattered faint creases notably to the upper part of the left edge. There is a spot of foxing to the lower left corner and a few additional flecks of foxing in places. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in good original condition.
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