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Lot n° 233

MARIE LAURENCIN (1883-1956)

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Young woman with a guitar Color etching on paper, signed in the plate and monogrammed in pencil ML. Size : 24 x 21 cm Close friend of Picasso, Braque and Cocteau, member of the first School of Paris, she led a passionate love affair with Guillaume Apollinaire before marrying a German Baron who pushed her into exile in Spain. Painter, poetess and illustrator, pioneer of cubism and Dadaism, with a style described as "nymphism", her portraits of young girls will earn her a worldwide success never denied to this day.