Cubist-adjacent painter of pastel, dreamlike women, and designer for the Ballets Russes.
Serene
Intimate
Self-Representation
Fun fact
She was questioned during the theft of the Mona Lisa because her circle, including Apollinaire and Picasso, fell under suspicion.
How she made it
Oil in a deliberately narrow pastel key, rose, grey, pale blue, brushed thinly over white ground, with faces reduced to almond eyes and simplified curves and no modelling shadow at all.
Work
Marie laurencin, leda e il cigno, 1923 (PMoA), date unknown
