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Marie Laurencin : sapphic Paris / edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang ; with essays by Simonetta Fraquelli, Cindy Kang, Jelena Kristic, Christine Poggi, and Rachel Silveri, and contributions by Corrinne Chong and Oriane Poret.

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Philadelphia : The Barnes Foundation, [2023]

Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956 -- Exhibitions.

Feminist art criticism -- Exhibitions.

Painting -- Exhibitions.

Drawing -- Exhibitions.

Sapphics -- Exhibitions.

Feminist art criticism.

0300273630 (hardback)

9780300273632 (hardback) :

viii, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Marie Laurencin : a woman's world / Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang -- Marie Laurencin's cubism / Christine Poggi -- Life in exile : becoming "Marie Laurencin" / Simonetta Fraquelli -- Designing a world : Marie Laurencin's decorative projects / Cindy Kang -- The adroit princess : Marie Laurencin's prints and book illustrations / Jelena Kristic -- No modernism without Marie Laurencin : picturing queer femininity / Rachel Silveri -- Appendix : Marie Laurencin's female network : selected biographies / Corrinne Chong -- Chronology and lifetime exhibitions / Oriane Poret.

"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 Andř Mare, Serge Diaghilev, Francis Poulenc, and Andř 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"-- Publisher's website.

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