
Marie Laurencin
Sapphic Paris
By: Simonetta Fraquelli (Editor), Cindy Kang (Editor), Jelena Kristic (Contribution by), Christine Poggi (Contribution by), Rachel Silveri (Contribution by)
Hardcover | 22 December 2023 | Edition Number 1
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This book offers a long-overdue reassessment of the career of the Parisian-born artist Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), who moved seamlessly between the Cubist avant-garde and lesbian literary and artistic circles, as well as the realms fashion, ballet, and decorative arts. Critical essays explore her early experiments with Cubism; her exile in Spain during World War I; her collaborative projects with major figures of her time such as Andre Mare, Serge Diaghilev, Francis Poulenc, and Andre Groult; and her role in the emergence of a “Sapphic modernity” in Paris in the 1920s. Along with more than 60 full-color plates, Laurencin’s life and career are documented through an illustrated chronology and exhibition history, as well as an appendix charting her network of female patrons and associates. Laurencin became a fixture of the contemporary art scene in pre–World War I Paris, including as a muse and romantic partner of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. She returned to the city after the war, having developed her signature style of diaphanous female figures in a blue-rose-gray palette. Laurencin’s feminine yet sexually fluid aesthetic defined 1920s Paris, and her work as an artist and designer met with high demand, with commissions by Ballets Russes and Coco Chanel, among others. Her romantic relationships with women inspired homoerotic paintings that visualized the modern Sapphism of contemporary lesbian writers like Nathalie Clifford Barney. Indeed, one of Laurencin’s final projects was to illustrate the poems of Sappho in 1950.
Distributed for the Barnes Foundation
Exhibition Schedule
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
(October 22, 2023–January 21, 2024)
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ISBN: 9780300273632
ISBN-10: 0300273630
Published: 22nd December 2023
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 29.8 x 24.1 x 2.2
Weight (kg): 1.4
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