Marie Laurencin is a painter associated with Fauvism and Cubism, who developed her own style under the name of “Nymphism”.

She took painting courses at the Sèvres factory and then at the Humbert Academy where she met André Derain and Georges Braque. The latter introduced it to the artists of the Bateau-Lavoir: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau... For a time she was the companion and the muse of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Marie Laurencin lives in the atmosphere of the cubist environment. She is one of the few women painters associated with this artistic movement at the beginning of the 20th century.

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In the 1920s, Laurencin became the official portraitist of the female social scene. She then developed her own style, painting poetic, melancholic canvases, in pale colors where pink, blue and white dominate. Her “nymphism” has as particularities pastel monochrome tones, patterns of princesses, fairy animals and androgynous adolescents with unreal pallor. She also composes still lifes and flower bouquets. In addition to her painted work, Laurencin also created sets and costumes for ballet and was interested in fashion design, collaborating with couturiers such as Coco Chanel.

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She exhibited at the Salon des Independants from 1907, at the Salon d'Automne from 1910 and at the Salon de la Section d'Or in 1911. She is represented by the Paul Rosenberg Gallery, the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, the Gallery Kahnweiler, one of the main cubist merchants, as well as by the Clovis Sagot gallery.

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His works are preserved in several museums in France and internationally such as the Pompidou Center, the Pompidou Center, the Orangerie Museum, the Orsay Museum in Paris, the MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Marie-Laurencin Museum in Nagano, Japan.

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