Jeunes femmes

by Marie Laurencin

Artist Marie Laurencin (Frankrike, 1883 - 1956)

Alternate Title

Unga kvinnor
Young Women

Date1910

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsBildmått: 115 × 146 cm Ram: 124 × 156 × 5,5 cm

Classification

Paintings

Countries

Frankrike

Credit LineDonation 1966 enligt testamente från Rolf de Maré

Object NumberNM 6003

CollectionsThe Rolf de Maré Collection

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkMarie Laurencin showed The Young Women at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1911, alongside works by other artists painting in a similar style. The exhibition, which gave rise to the term “cubism”, caused a scandal but was also the breakthrough for cubist art. This painting was the first of two works that Rolf de Maré purchased in Paris in 1914; the other was Georges Braque’s Still Life with Fruit Bowl. Both were bought from the art dealer Wilhelm Uhde, who wanted to make Laurencin famous by selling the painting for an extremely high price. With Nils Dardel as his agent, the wealthy Rolf de Maré acquired the painting for 4,000 francs – to be compared with Braque’s still life, which was bought for 1,000 francs. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på framsidan av konstverket i nedre högra hörnet: "Marie Laurencin" Selected exhibition history Rosa segel. Svensk modernism i Moderna Museets samling (den 17 juni 2023 - den 3 augusti 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Bibliography Elizabeth Otto, "Memories of Bilitis: Marie Laurencin beyond the Cubist Context", Genders 36, hösten 2002. Hyland, Douglas K. and Heather McPherson: Marie Laurencin: Artist and Muse, Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1989. Elliott, Bridget: "The 'Strength of the Weak' as Portrayed by Marie Laureincin", in On Your Left: Historical Materialism in the 1990's, Eds. Ann Kibbey, Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, Ellen Berry, New York: New York University Press, 1996: 69-109. Hyland, Douglas K.S. och McPherson, Heather, Marie Laurencin: Artist and Muse, Seattle och London 1989, s 27, ill. s 26. Yaegashi, H., Marie Laurencin, Tokyo 1985. Marchessau, D., Marie Laurencin, Tokyo 1980. Apollinaire, Guillaume: Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918, Ed. Leroy C. Breunig. Trans. Susan Suleiman, New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Allard, Roger, Marie Laurencin, Paris 1921, s 19. "Guillaume Apollinaire", Méditations Esthétiques, Paris 1913.

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