Letters, 1925-1954.

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Letters, 1925-1954.

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Letters and short notes written by Marie Laurencin to various friends with news about her health, her desire to make a statue ("une apparition blanche") for her home decoration, and the need to postpone an appointment because she "must paint an English lady" (letter to Suguet). A warm letter from 1954 to Louis de Gonzague-Frick reminds him of the importance of having [unwed] mothers like his, hers and Madame de Kostrowitz (Apollinaire's mother). After the war, the artist is glad to sell her property at Champrosay, because a noisy Soviet has moved in next door (letter to Suguet). A group of 13 letters sent to her friend Daniel Wallard in 1943-44 speak about the war shortages, the bombardments and her living with friends after being expelled from her apartment on rue Savorgnan de Brazza. A letter dated "Noël 1944" announces that in a couple of months she will finally get a workshop in rue Vaneau. There are two little poems of 4 verses each, written on two small scraps of paper with a note: "à ajouter au Bestiaire." They are reminiscent of the important influence of Apollinaire, about whom she writes with sadness to Wallard.

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Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956

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Marie Laurencin was born in Paris on 31 October 1883. She attended the Lycee Lamartine in the city before studying porcelain painting at the Sevres factory. Later on she entered the Academie Humbert. In 1907 she exhibited at the Clovis Sagot gallery in Montmartre, and there she was introduced to Guillaume Apollinaire by Pablo Picasso and she became romatically involved with Apollinaire until 1913. In 1908, Laurencin achieved her first sale when Gertrude Stein purchased Group...

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918

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French writer and critic. From the description of Letter : Paris, to Marc Bresil, 1914 March 12. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84215141 From the description of Notes on art, 1899-1914. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79028649 French writer. From the description of Les fenêtres (poem), 1913. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80958765 ...

Montfort, Eugène, 1877-1936

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Suguet.

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Gonzague Frick, Louis de, 1883-1958

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French poet. From the description of Letter : to Francois Bernouard, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 146001235 ...

Wallard, Daniel

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