Tall and slender figures formed out of flowing lines, upright oval faces with deep and dark almond-shaped eyes and sharply accentuated noses - these constitute the unmistakable bodily and facial type that provide Marie Laurencin's oil and watercolour paintings with their distinctive formal idiom. Real and imaginary portraits of elegant ladies, delicate girls or graceful ballet dancers form her preferred subject matter. Despite Laurencin's chequered life, her extensive oeuvre is characterised by an extraordinary independence and indicates her self-confident artistic attitude. Without a doubt, she is one of the twentieth century's important female artists.
[Auktionshaus Lempertz, Cologne - Watercolour, pencil and India ink on white watercolour paper, 45 x 36.2 cm]