Marie Laurencin, Composition, Alice'S Adventures In Wonderland, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin de Rives BFK la forme paper. Paper Size: 9.84 x 11.81 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1930. Published by The Black Sun Press, Paris, under the direction of Caresse Crosby, Paris; printed by Matre-Imprimeur, Andr Roger Lescaret, Paris, 1930. Excerpted from the album, This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated with VI colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin printed for and under the direction of Caresse Crosby at The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930 (Matre-Imprimeur Lescaret), is composed in hand-set Dorique type and is strictly limited to 370 numbered copies for Europe; and 420 numbered copies for the United States of which 350 on Rives Paper, 50 on Japanese Vellum, and 20 on Hollande Van Gelder each of these 20 copies containing a supplementary suite of the six illustrations in sanguine. The lithographs executed by Desjobert of Paris.

MARIE LAURENCIN (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier, and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indpendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist." She had a forty years long love relationship with fashion designer Nicole Groult.
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